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?
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Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
what social media feels like.
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We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.
Drew Austin • #162: Minimum Viable Self
I have often heard it said of social media: ‘when you cannot see the product being advertised, it’s because you are the product.’
Our preferences and opinions become part of the programme, encouraging certain types of thoughts and behaviours in others. The ‘like’ button is integral to the function of social platforms and yet what purpose does it
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