the information space
Pivots, Trolls, and Blog Rolls
talkingpointsmemo.com
we’re entering a new era of the weaponization of the internet driven by attacks where video has undeniably replaced text as the raw material for conspiracy theories.
Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For
This difference is what the media theorist James Carey calls the ritual view versus transmission view of communication. In the ritual view, communication is an act of sharing or fellowship between people. This is reflected in how the word “communication” itself shares a root with “community” and “commonality”: the original reason for why we would... See more
against content
The triumph of performance
therebooting.com
Our digital lives will be increasingly split between
- AI interfaces and agents traversing the legacy web for task completion and information
- gigantic algorithmic social platforms that distribute creator content for entertainment and
- an archipelago of high-trust private communities or group chats for connection and collaboration.
What AI means for the business of: journalism
an informational landscape dominated by self-selection bias, where those who produce exciting lies or loyal deflections are directly rewarded by clicks and cash.
The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
These shifts have given rise to an alarming paradox: more information is readily available than was previously imaginable in human history, and yet vast numbers of people now understand the world exclusively through what they see on the internet, a funhouse mirror that distorts all it reflects. And that paradox is killing democracy.
The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
The internet—followed by the rise of social media and its constellation of information influencers—is the first and only technological revolution that fundamentally altered humanity’s relationship with information. For the first time, the world came to understand itself not through few-to-many communication but through many-to-many communication.
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The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments,