what is Social Media doing to us?
Jerod Morris and
what is Social Media doing to us?
Jerod Morris and
For many of us, the pandemic didn’t create new factors that ruined our attention – it supercharged the factors that had already been corroding our attention for years. I saw this when I talked with my godson Adam, who I had taken to Memphis. His attention, which had been deteriorating for some time, was now shattered. He was on his phone almost
... See morewhat these continuous streams of content do is prevent you from taking a second to pause, reflect on who you really are, and realize where you are headed.
These conditions can obviously manifest themselves in contexts far removed from online forums and social media. But a simulation of the experience of power, understood as the collapse of the space between impulse and act, may be more generalized in online environments where a forgetfulness of the body is also a default setting.
The interval of
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