Sometimes the most profound truths (or at the very least – facts) emerge not from what does exist, but from what does not.
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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.
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Mobile Device Digital Detox ?
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.
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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…
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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…
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Social Media: Insouciance or Anxiety ?
…why farm people’s identities when they quite happily, enthusiastically, farm themselves for you…
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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…
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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…
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