Ambient Co-Presence

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Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and

digital gardens. Or make themselvesillegibleand algorithmically incoherent in public venues.

Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Third, the interaction between digital and physical. As digital technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous, the ways we operate in the physical world become more reliant on the digital. It seems almost silly to pose the two worlds as separate—a digital world and a physical world. For most of our experience, we interact with both, unless we make a c

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

And there was something else to look at what urban planner William White calls triangulation. You don't have to directly engage with other people who are here. You can both be looking at the fire. You're having a nice time. You're warm, you're feeling good. And over the course of sitting for a while, there's opportunity to strike up a conversation ... See more

Eli Pariser • How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios

Large parasocial platforms transformed the internet into a hostile and impersonal place. They feed our FOMO to keep us clicking. They exaggerate our differences for "engagement". They create engines for stardom to keep us creeping. They bait us into nutritionless and sensationalist content. Humanity cannot subsist on hype alone.

Small and sincere co... See more