“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b
Double Standards and Diverse Media - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__ctRfI7cuM
Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)
why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years
Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/
“Learn to Code”: The Twitter Meme Attacking Media - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/
Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.
New Media and the Recurring Crisis of Norms | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2019/01/03/new-media-and-the-recurring-crisis-of-norms/
The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/
How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere
social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html
Experiential Vs. Contemplative Media - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNvoG4qYPuk
Elon Musk is the first influencer CEO - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18150813/elon-musk-influencer-ceo-social-media-tesla-spacex
It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/
The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain
- don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’
Social Media Consciousness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/07/social-media-consciousness/
Environmental Media Project, Keio University, Japan 1999 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMujvLQdKaE&index=2&list=PLZYUaP_cPHpa9Cad1GxrnvW4Ky3xlPMHg
Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE
Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
Mindstorms https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/
Xanadu Basics 1c - Parallel Media. Parallel Subjects - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
Mindstorms https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/
Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.
Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html
@tx@shroom.party A lot of the original ‘text’ on social media is already an image, so sharing it as screenshot is not even the root cause.
how i found out about twtxt btw: gopher://fuckup.solutions/0/enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-06-15_Exocortex-tools-part-I–social-media-automation-with-very-small-shell-scripts-62d995242a57.txt
The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099
Media Piracy and Unpronounceable Names - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/media-piracy-and-unpronounceab.html
Hot take: the most annoying thing about anti-spoiler behavior is that it protects the kind of bad, shallow media that spoilers actually affect from serious criticism until they have already been consumed.
How Wikipedia dodged public outcry plaguing social media platforms https://medium.com/wiki-strategies/platform-a3b8c3ce901e
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
The thing about cultural niches is that they are created by and for ‘mass media’ as a novelty… https://medium.com/@/the-thing-about-cultural-niches-is-that-they-are-created-by-and-for-mass-media-as-a-novelty-4e5853196ee3
Simone Natale, ‘Deceitful Media and Deceitful Mediums’ by Popular Occulture 1875-1947 | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-569807420/simone-natale-deceitful-media-and-deceitful-mediums
“All medias are propagandic” “ Of Bowie, Mishima, Memewar: Jamie Curcio Interviewed https://medium.com/@StealThisSingul/all-medias-are-propagandic-of-bowie-mishima-memewar-jamie-curcio-interviewed-fba0245075bc
Elon Musk Is The Donald Trump Of Silicon Valley https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-war-press-media
Hot take: the most accurate depiction of the deep state in media is the 1980s british sitcom Yes, Prime Minister
Hot take: it’s important to distinguish ‘junk food media’ (i.e., stuff that, regardless of technical competence, will succeed by delivering on purience) from ‘premium media’ (works whose popularity depends on craftsmanship). The former is more important for the progress of art, because polish runs counter to experimentation.
article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition
Against trendism: ipfs://QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-04-01_Against-trendism–how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956.txt / https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956
Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media https://tedium.co/2018/05/31/webring-history/
Xanadu Basics 1c - Parallel Media. Parallel Subjects - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
guided journalists during the 1970s media crisis of confidence - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/more-journalism-review.php
Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why arenât they in mainstream media? - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nyt_opinion-left.php
Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE