Platform, Streaming, and Individual

2022-11-30T18:00:36Z

"New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop." - Postman, Neil. Technopoly

"To create content is to be distracted. To create the “platform” is to focus on the true structure of reality. Shaping media is better than shaping the content of such media. It is the person who makes the “platform” who becomes a billionaire. The person who provides the content—be it reviews on Yelp, self-published books on Amazon, your own car and waking hours through Uber—is a rube distracted by a glittering but pointless object." - Daub, Adrian. What Tech Calls Thinking

"Communication on the Internet often appears to be senseless, to lead nowhere. The majority of the time, content is inconsequential, vanishing into the air, like ether. No one can remember what was being discussed a month ago. And what is really happening, what is accumulating, is an ongoing practice in mutual enrollment, a constant affirmation of one’s part in the social organism. The thirst for response helps human being to be a social being." - Miroshnichenko, Andrey. Human as media. The emancipation of authorship

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