“Facebook, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, the Internet Research Agency, Google: these are, every one, the children of Simulmatics” –
Simulmatics is a relic of its time, an artifact of the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Nixon Cold War;...
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“If you feel that these media influence and inform public opinion – and swing elections! – then abandoning Facebook and deleting your account may actually be civically irresponsible”
1. FB promised to be and, in many ways, has become a new public...
“We are spoiled by immediacy and become annoyed by tasks that remain at the old level of effort and time”
As task after task becomes easier, the growing expectation of convenience exerts a pressure...
“Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces”
The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
“Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…”
Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
“In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup”
In retrospect, Facebook’s takeover of online media looks rather like a slow-motion coup. Before...
“This year, political content has become more popular all across [Facebook]”
This year, political content has become more popular all across the platform: on homegrown...
“The technological use of ‘avatar’ emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the late 1980s and early ’90s, at the dawn of personal computing”
The technological use of “avatar” emerged via a spontaneous burst of coinages in the...
“The introduction and rapid growth of social media certainly sent shocks to beer media and establishments…”
The introduction and rapid growth of social media certainly sent shocks to beer media...