the information space

The internet big “lowest-common-denominator battle for attention.” A chaotic maelstrom of consumption, performance, and sensational reaction. Understanding the relationship between information systems and society is the great challenge of our time.

Brandon Marcus

The market for mindful engagement is dwarfed by the market for frictionless consumption.

Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

The media and society can be understood as conversations - Jeff Jarvis

This is to say that political actors routinely fail to understand themselves and their political opponents as making fallible knowledge-claims — fallible knowledge-claims about who won the  election, for example, falli-ble knowledge-claims claims about the effects of climate change, fallible knowledge-claims about the existence of systemic... See more

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Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive. From a certain point onwards, they no longer inform — they deform. They can even darken the world. This puts them in opposition to truth. Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise,... See more

NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

Most people don’t subscribe to media because they can’t get the information anywhere else, rather, they want to support the creator(s) and have access to their POV.

The future of media is a bank

Platforms have imbued crowds with new qualities. They are no longer fleeting and local, but persistent and global. They engage symbiotically with influencers, but don’t require a leader or physical space to assemble. Platform affordances empowered crowds; they are now active participants in chronicling history and shaping narratives.
Invisible

The internet has made it easy to evaluate all content — including criticism — against three key metrics: views, likes, and shares. Criticism, it turns out, underperforms.

Celine Nguyen • Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?

Big tech is the operating system of the modern world, controlling our discovery, communications, and commercial infrastructure. Media must be re-contextualized as a public communications operating system controlled by five companies (Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter).

The request to “debate the ideas” is, in most cases, not a real request for debate. It is a move in a game whose actual logic runs on a version of Carl Schmitt’s famous, and famously abused, friend-enemy distinction. What matters is not whether the argument is sound but whether the person making it is your ally. This is the defining pathology of... See more

Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

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NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

The future of media is a bank

Celine Nguyen • Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?

Alright, Let's Debate the Ideas Then