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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youtube.comOn the Social Media Ideology - Journal #75 September 2016 - e-flux
e-flux.comHow to Save the Internet
sriramk.comthe internet isnāt some alien force that descended upon us.
Itās just us, but bigger.
Itās just us, but bigger.
Joan Westenberg ā¢ The Original Sin of Everything
Via Jonathan Haidt
From 2016 onward, the sense of the internet as a transparent information organizing agent has been in decline. After the algorithms, you could not have a curated, chronological feed of your follows. After the Cambridge Analytic scandal, fears over disinformation and misinformation dominated discussions of our new communications technologies. After 2020, it was no longer a conspiracy theory that the federal government was involved in online censorship. The Elon Muskās Twitter Files and Mark Zuckerbergās public apology for caving to pressure from the FBI have corroborated digital dissidentsā accusations.
The media has propagated a new definition of what it means to be a good consumer of information. They want you to read high-velocity content from multiple information streams and be constantly plugged into whatās happening. They can sell the most advertisements this way.
Our feeds are designed to āprod the would-be attender ever onward from one monetizable object to the next,ā 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.
