what is Social Media doing to us?• 243
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
Jerod Morris
“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide
Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too
Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst
“Everyone will just prompt their own movies” “Everyone will just prompt their own apps” You don’t get it. Humans crave shared context. They want to
ways to discover content• 37
tools, methods, and approaches to content discovery on the Internet
sari
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness. Not entertainment or artistic merit. Not intellectual
Knowledge Management• 230
sari
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help
information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources
Trust becomes something you can filter on before you commit to reading.