Social media addiction is a growing phenomenon. It is a problem-space defined by the deep irony that the more connected we all become by the putatively “social” information and communication technologies, the more isolated we all feel ourselves to be. In this context, expectation is fundamentally, foundationally discontinuous with experience.
Instagram does not only generate dissatisfaction, it thrives on it.
Sometimes the most profound truths (or at the very least – facts) emerge not from what does exist, but from what does not.
Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.
You can not actually detox from digital hyper-connectivity using digital devices, but who would be willing to let the truth get in the way of a good business model…
The influence of popular communications and media is an effect measured by the relative simplicity of the associated communication method.
Personality or persona is the most concise form in which a reflexive attitude and interpretation (both from and) towards the world can be captured…
The actual rate of accelerating technological and organisational complexity has been outpacing administrative and hierarchical aptitude for some time.
Self-organising cultural, political and communications-system architectures tend to rapidly capitalise upon and exploit technical tool-sets, vectors or opportunities when they appear…
The bundled aggregation and recorded sedimentation of information within, between and around individuals is not simply a symptom of an accelerating information and technological communications culture – it precisely and constitutively is that culture…
…why farm people’s identities when they quite happily, enthusiastically, farm themselves for you…
Social realities have always been culturally-mediated spaces but when these spaces are themselves aligned to corporate financial gain, even genuinely or potentially useful post-disaster communications and humanitarian tools seem hollow and superficial…
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