what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
Jerod Morris and
what is Social Media doing to us?
Our feeds are designed to “prod the would-be attender ever onward from one monetizable object to the next,” he writes. This has had a deadening effect on all kinds of culture, from Marvel blockbusters that optimize for attention minute to minute, to automated Spotify recommendations that push one similar song after another.
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
sari and • 140 cards
Twitter’s Response to the Oscars Slap Was a Predictable Cycle
Charlie Warzelnewsletters.theatlantic.com
McLuhan argued that, pushed to its limits, a medium flips or reverses its characteristics.
Internet scale pushes information into disinformation, connection into loneliness, and desire into apathy.
LM Sacasasx.comIt’s amazing how normal it’s become for peoples hobbies to boil down to nothing more than some form of consumption.
Jeremy Giffontwitter.coma thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best:
social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an endless number of things you have to sift through, and time starts to feel limited.
there's something about feeling a sense of abundant time that's really powerful and conducive to flow state - how do we
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