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The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.
Our online spaces are not... See more
Our online spaces are not... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
At the heart of this transformation, perhaps, is the reality that news media at scale may have been a collective fiction. In the platform age, consumers create their own content mixes, usually based on trusted or affinity-aligned sources. The very notion of a newsroom —a one-stop, always-on bodega of information spanning politics to sports, manned... See more
Just a moment...
The internet is a dialogic space. There is no consensus, no cascading of a single point of view. There is no order.
john v willshire • The Dialogic Brand
The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization - The Convivial Society
Substacktheconvivialsociety.substack.com
As the internet grows in size, we feel like we’re surrounded by people and lonely at the same time. It feels increasingly harder to feel safe expressing ourselves authentically in the predominant gathering spaces. We feel like we’re either invisible or presenting at an auditorium. Things have to be more explicit, black-and-white in the new world.... See more
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
Why I Am a Pluralist
radicalxchange.org

