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Every "chronically online" conversation is the same
They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either. From being asked to review every product you buy to believing that every tweet or Instagram image warrants likes or comments or follows, soci
... See moreSociety is relearning how to hold a conversation with itself. After more than 500 years, we are well out of practice. Consensus holds that the public conversation today is in shambles: nasty, brutish, uninformed, overwhelming, and loud—a waste of bits, pixels, and breath. Misinformation, disinformation, harassment, and hate are far too prevalent, t
... See moreJeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
Whether it calls itself the Right or the Left , the real content of all online politics is the internet itself, and the arc of online politics always bends towards a bunch of strangers who spend their entire lives on the computer demanding that you publicly denounce your friends.
Sam Kriss • How the Online Right Fell Apart
One of the most useful concepts for understanding why social networks so often drive us to despair is context collapse: taking multiple audiences with different norms, standards, and levels of knowledge, and herding them all into a single digital space to coexist. Predictably, this regularly leads to conflict — and, at the scale of an entire countr... See more