what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
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what is Social Media doing to us?
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
Paul Virilio
Illich’s anecdote is, of course, a provocative reversal of the usual way that new media tend to be presented as a necessarily democratizing and empowering force, and it seems closer to mark as the events of the last decade or so have illustrated. The ostensible promise of social media was that anyone’s voice could now be heard. Whether anyone would
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On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
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It is alleged that social media fuels polarization, exploits human weaknesses and insecurities, and creates echo chambers where everyone gets their own slice of reality, eroding the public sphere and the understanding of common facts. And, worse still, this is all done intentionally in a relentless pursuit of profit.