New internet
We’ve grown so used to the idea that social media is damaging our democracies that we’ve thought very little about how we might build new networks to strengthen societies. We need a wave of innovation around imagining and building tools whose goal is not to capture our attention as consumers, but to connect and inform us as citizens.
Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review
Pewnie, chcielibyśmy czytać dłużej i częściej sięgać po wartościowe teksty, a przynajmniej bogate językowo. Niestety król internetu nie dopuszcza nas do swojego panelu sterowania. Nie można zresetować tej absurdalnej sytuacji i wyczyścić dziwnych ciasteczek w naszej percepcji odpowiedzialnych za małe dopaminowe eksplozje podczas oglądania (nowych!)... See more
Katarzyna Janota • Na zawsze gdzie indziej / Literatura / dwutygodnik.com
I believe that we desperately need to be experimenting and developing methods of communication that aren’t beholden to either the advertising industry or the brittle egos of billionaires.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
To step into the stream of any social network, to become immersed in the news, reactions, rage and hopes, the marketing and psyops, the funny jokes and clever memes, the earnest requests for mutual aid, for sign ups, for jobs, the clap backs and the call outs, the warnings and invitations—it can feel like a kind of madness. It’s unsettling, in the ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
And so I remain at an unresolvable juncture: the intersection of the very strong belief that we must experiment with new modes and systems of communication, and the certain knowledge that every time I so much as glance at anything shaped like a social feed, my brain smoothes out, the web of connections and ideas I’m weaving is washed away, and I tu... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
About the feeling of getting into social-media loopscrolling
Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
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