what is Social Media doing to us?

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

Jerod Morris and

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Mark Zuckerberg sriramk.com

Yaro Celis

How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis

Charlie Warzel newsletters.theatlantic.com

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How do we find each other again?

Garbage Day garbageday.email

Keely Adler

Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment

Clive Thompson this.org

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TikTok Is a Chinese Superweapon

Gurwinder gurwinder.substack.com

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alex

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.🧵:

C Thi Nguyen x.com

andrea

Just a moment...

artstation.com

Andrés

The flattening of intent across algorithms has created a new competitive landscape. The musician isn’t competing for attention/fandom between others in their genre. An artist being forced to be an influencer before they are an artist is not a “I think we are good” software environment. Far from it. They are competing against a pornstar on a... See more

Reggie James • Threads & Presentations

ssari

An artist being forced to be an influencer before they are an artist