Shoshana Zuboff’s analysis of “The Coup We Are Not Talking About,” published in today’s Sunday New York Times, is an essential follow-up to her book Surveillance Capitalism, applying that book’s analysis to the situation we are living through. This other coup is the “epistemic coup” which, she writes, “proceeds in four stages”:
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The information coup
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Anomalies, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, digital media, epistemic crisis, Facebook, Google, Googlization, infodemic, information civilization, information war, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, New York Times, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, surveillance capitalism on January 31, 2021 | 1 Comment »
More conspiratology: the internet as monochord & storm machine
Posted in Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged affect, affective contagion, alt-left, alt-right, alternative health, Anomalies, anti-vaccination movement, anti-vaxx, complementary health, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, conspiracy theories, conspiratistics, conspiratology, conspirology, digital media, disinformation, emotional contagion, emotional surge protection, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, illiberalism, infowar, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, monochord, New Age culture, New Age movement, populism, post-truth, QAnon, Robert Fludd, social media, Trump, Wu Ming Foundation on June 2, 2020 | 5 Comments »
At a time when the U.S. itself appears on the brink of collapse — with riots in the streets, a pandemic crippling the country’s heath care system and wreaking havoc on its economy, a president tweeting out nods of recognition to his QAnon fan base and hinting at “the Storm” that is coming — the sense-making apparatus of digital media is rife with opportunities for disinformational entrepreneurs to make headway in various directions. […]
The internet is like a huge instrument — a hyper-complex, Robert Fluddian monochord, that works by allowing for an infinity of connections through which flow the sounds and vibrations of human emotional and affective contagion. When protests erupt across the country over the senseless killing of a black man in Minneapolis, the time scale in which large-scale action occurs speeds up and become affect-driven time, not a time in which collective deliberation is really possible. This means that informational, and therefore “disinformational,” bursts into that monochord become all the more powerful.
Media hygiene 102: regulation
Posted in Media ecology, tagged cyberlibertarianism, Howard Rheingold, media addiction, media ecology, media hygiene, media regulation, Naked Lunch, net democracy, social media, William S. Burroughs on March 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
There are two implicit rules that social media (in their corporate controlled, un- or dis-regulated state) want you to learn. (By “want,” I mean that these are the tendencies being encouraged by the systems themselves. And by “rules,” I mean norms, habits, or learned impulses meant to be followed instinctively.) The rules are these:
Earth Day thoughts for a mediascaped planet…
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Amazon, Facebook, Google, oligarchy, social media, Ukraine on April 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been posting about the Ukrainian presidential runoff elections over at UKR-TAZ, the blog I established in the wake of the 2014 Maidan revolution. (See Four theses on Ukrainian politics and Politics as reality-FB.) The gist of my comments is relevant to the study of social media’s impacts on political and cultural change in general, […]
Media hygiene 101
Posted in Media ecology, tagged clickbait, digital culture, Ecologies of the Moving Image, fake news, filter bubbles, information war, media, media ecology, media hygiene, media theory, mediasphere, social media on July 2, 2017 | 6 Comments »
My book Ecologies of the Moving Image provides some suggestions into how we can become better consumers and co-producers of media. But these suggestions come couched within a 400-page treatise of media (and environmental) philosophy that includes a history of cinema, analyses of various films, and much else. While the focus there is on cinema and […]
Parsing the “alternative media ecosystem”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged fake news, filter bubbles, Kate Starbird, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, post-truth, social media on April 3, 2017 | 4 Comments »
We all know the media ecosystem has been changing rapidly, with media scholars scrambling to understand how and where things are headed. “Fake news” and “post-truth” are the glib catchwords of the day; “filter bubbles,” “echo chambers,” “ideological segregation,” “information cascades,” “algorithmic filtering” (along with the all-encompassing “Algoricene“), and “meme magic” are among the more, or less, […]
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