The influence of popular communications and media is an effect measured by the relative simplicity of the associated communication method.
Tag: social media
On Personality
Personality or persona is the most concise form in which a reflexive attitude and interpretation (both from and) towards the world can be captured…
Disassembling Democracy
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…
Social Media: Insouciance or Anxiety ?
…why farm people’s identities when they quite happily, enthusiastically, farm themselves for you…
Facebook’s “Safety Check”
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…
The “Mediation” in Social Media
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…