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?
Knowing you live in a magpie culture is worth keeping in mind. If, as Isaiah Berlin once said, “foxes” are people who know many little things, and “hedgehogs” people who know one big thing, then the more recent “magpie” is someone who knows nothing yet manages to maintain a beautiful nest of ideas that aren’t theirs.
We live in a culture of magpies
provocative - on how the only people that are famous on social media are 1) famous to begin with or 2) people unbothered by minor theft of ideas because stealing other people’s content is the only strategy that can reliably build large audiences from scratch on websites with high content demands.
The main paper I've been working on for the last 3 years is out: "Value Capture"! It's about the harms of taking on external metrics and rankings as your own core values.
The argument: you're outsourcing your values. It's fast, but then your values won't be tailored to you.🧵:
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Modern ‘Social Apps’ look more and more like consumable fashion vs. enduring networks…. It isn’t just downloads, engagement alone is no longer enough.
Attention Economy
exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory
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