The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
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The Medium Is The Message
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Patrick Haggardscientificamerican.com
via Charles Eisenstein
The largest companies today are obsessed with generating content in a completely de-ritualized context. But content always exists in tension with form. Ritual is the form we have abandoned in our relentless quest for content.
Ted Gioia • 13 Observations on Ritual
addictive scrolling and swiping can never achieve the sense of closure and boundedness we all crave.
Shaped intentionally or not, each medium’s fundamental materials and constraints give it a “grain” which make it bend naturally in some directions and not in others.
Andy Matuschak • Why books don’t work
Still need a study on how YouTube comments became incredibly civilized and wholesome
While Instagram comments became the absolute meanest place on the internet
Reggie Jamesx.comInnovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
an interview about instant messenger that takes place on instant messenger. the lesson is simple: writing is hard because it forces us to improve our thinking.
how instant messenger shapes thinking
Looking around, it’s easy to be disheartened about people and the state of the world, but on Reddit I have experienced the opposite: people naturally create community, and they are smarter, funnier, and more helpful and caring than I think we often give them credit for.
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
And this is not because our users are some special subset of humanity. They’re... See more
KG • Anthology #1: Reddit
incentives are everything, and Reddit doesn’t reward self-promoters