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?
2023 | Activate
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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
sari and • 100 cards
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
the GPS/mapping function of the phone is quite useful — but apart from that, our phones really aren’t doing much that our computers don’t do, they’re just portable and thus available to disrupt any potential boredom.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
via Sam Kriss: A chaser: “Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive.”
Louis C.K. thoughts on Social Media | Chris Distefano: Chrissy Chaos
youtube.comBalaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
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