Social Media
Essays and more on social media
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Social Media
In 2021, growing share of Americans said they used YouTube; Facebook remained one of the most widely used online platforms among U.S. adults
pewresearch.orgRitual is vital because it gives us a sense that we belong to the world. A sense of connectedness, whether to society, nature or the divine, is in turn linked to a sense of psychological wholeness and lower rates of mental illness.
Social media offers the opposite; connection without relatedness.
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
How important the small communities are
an app where you can see the most similar photos in the network to the ones you’ve taken. sorta amusing for artwork/nature photography
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
the bullshitters are the loudest
Well, one explanation I liked quite a bit was recently written by Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims, who argued that social media isn’t dying, but changing into broadcast media. The majority of the content we see on a daily basis is now made or shared by a small professional class of users, known as the creator economy. Which is making... See more
Ryan Broderick • Selling your filter bubble back to you
In all the clamour over ‘the virtual’ and ‘the digital’, we tend to forget that social media is more about the social than the media - it’s about people coming together and what people think about us and what we think of ourselves because of that.