New internet
And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social feed, my brain smoothes out, the web of connections and ideas I’m weaving is washed away, and I tu... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
About the feeling of getting into social-media loopscrolling
Pewnie, chcielibyśmy czytać dłużej i częściej sięgać po wartościowe teksty, a przynajmniej bogate językowo. Niestety król internetu nie dopuszcza nas do swojego panelu sterowania. Nie można zresetować tej absurdalnej sytuacji i wyczyścić dziwnych ciasteczek w naszej percepcji odpowiedzialnych za małe dopaminowe eksplozje podczas oglądania (nowych!)... See more
Katarzyna Janota • Na zawsze gdzie indziej / Literatura / dwutygodnik.com
Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
networkcultures.orgEven when we live in cities, and no matter how socially busy we are, social media feels like a way to remind others, as much as ourselves: “Here I am! I matter!” And if we stop using it, we (or I) wonder if we might simply disappear into the forest, never to be thought of again
Social media is cooked
We’ve grown so used to the idea that social media is damaging our democracies that we’ve thought very little about how we might build new networks to strengthen societies. We need a wave of innovation around imagining and building tools whose goal is not to capture our attention as consumers, but to connect and inform us as citizens.
Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review
Likes, comments, and shares almost completely boil down to a hallucination of action and importance. When we post about or reshare something that’s bigger than ourselves, we inherently feel we’re a part of it; that we’re actually aligned and/or part of the resistance. But unfortunately, unless your account has enormous scale (and even when it does)... See more
Social media is cooked
To step into the stream of any social network, to become immersed in the news, reactions, rage and hopes, the marketing and psyops, the funny jokes and clever memes, the earnest requests for mutual aid, for sign ups, for jobs, the clap backs and the call outs, the warnings and invitations—it can feel like a kind of madness. It’s unsettling, in the ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
