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Political and cultural struggles have moved onto the new media hardware and embraced its settings. Since the main effect of digital media, particularly social media platforms, has been to catalyze self-expression, the cultural, political, and economic significance of identity claims has skyrocketed.

Andrey Mir • My new book: The Viral Inquisitor and Other Essays on Postjournalism and Media Ecology

If we give this much power to the physical dimension of space, the fact that we allow digital technology to dictate our movements should come as no surprise.

John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

Hence a contradiction: the self-regulating and self-organizing qualities of emergent networked phenomena appear to engender and supplement the very thing that makes us human, yet one's ability to superimpose top-down control on that emergent structure evaporates in the blossoming of the network form,…

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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)

The network of algorithms makes so many decisions for us, and yet we have little way of talking back to it or changing how it works.

This imbalance induces a state of passivity: We consume what the feeds recommend to us without engaging too deeply with the material.

We also adapt the way we present ourselves online to its incentives. We write tweet

The incursion is when dispossession operations rely on their virtual capabilities to kidnap behavioral surplus from the nonmarket spaces of everyday life where it lives.

Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

overwhelmingly passive.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Seriality is the dispersal of collectivity into an aggregate of discrete individuals who relate to each other only on the basis of hollow or narcissistic identities.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

The elements and dynamics of the game, combined with its novel augmented-reality technology, operate to herd populations of game players through the real-world monetization checkpoints constituted by the game’s actual customers: the entities who pay to play on the real-world game board, lured by the promise of guaranteed outcomes.