MachineMachine /stream - tagged with social https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be ‘non-playable characters’ | TikTok | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll

If you haven’t seen them yet, the videos are mesmerizing. A content creator with long, straight hair sits at her kitchen table, rapidly stringing together nonsense catchphrases, over and over with the same cheerful expression and tone. “Yes yes yes. Mmm, ice cream so good.

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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:51:24 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll
<![CDATA[An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First Amendment Institute]]> https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media

This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures.

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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:33:12 -0700 https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media
<![CDATA[TikTok Cultures Research Network (Methodologies)]]> https://tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-methodologies/

The TikTok Cultures Research Network held its third virtual event TikTok Methodologies on 19 July 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Professor Patrik Wikström, and Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye.

The field of digital media research is rapidly expanding to include innovative and exciting TikTok research. As one of the most widely used digital short video platforms around the world, TikTok is a key social arena to study global youth culture, creativity, professionalization, and activism. This event was a critical forum for discussion on TikTok research frameworks and methodologies from emerging voices in the field.

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Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:33:32 -0800 https://tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-methodologies/
<![CDATA[The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:55:19 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
<![CDATA[Where Do Men Go When They Get Lost? | by Zoetica Ebb | Mar, 2021 | Medium]]> https://zoetica.medium.com/where-do-men-go-when-they-get-lost-996651359ade

I just lost a friend. In addition to the immense loss of life to Covid-19, we have lost people in other ways over the past year, when the confluence of quarantine, fear, and US-election frenzy tossed our friends and family at the cliffs of radical beliefs.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:30 -0700 https://zoetica.medium.com/where-do-men-go-when-they-get-lost-996651359ade
<![CDATA[The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram]]> https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:55:14 -0800 https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/
<![CDATA[Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opinion/cancel-culture.html

We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its march to world domination: Our greatest weapon is our attention and how we choose to wield it.

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:13:15 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opinion/cancel-culture.html
<![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
<![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
<![CDATA[QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be a mother, picking leftovers off your toddler’s plate. You could be the young man in headphones across the street.

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Fri, 22 May 2020 13:13:04 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
<![CDATA[QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be a mother, picking leftovers off your toddler’s plate. You could be the young man in headphones across the street.

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Fri, 22 May 2020 06:13:04 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
<![CDATA[The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind

Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind. My interest was not academic.

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:09 -0800 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind
<![CDATA[BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/buzzfeed-jonah-peretti-2010s.html

As the decade began, there were rea­sons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into total financial collapse.

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Wed, 01 Jan 2020 06:16:25 -0800 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/buzzfeed-jonah-peretti-2010s.html
<![CDATA[Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-age-of-privacy-nihilism-is-here/568198/

A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle to a companion to pick up some Red Bull; on the ride home, Instagram serves a sponsored post for the beverage.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:37 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-age-of-privacy-nihilism-is-here/568198/
<![CDATA[Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/

Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:30:33 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/
<![CDATA[John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by Antonio García Martínez and ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ by Jonathan Taplin · LRB 17 August 2017]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product

At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month.

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Wed, 06 Sep 2017 03:24:16 -0700 https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product
<![CDATA[Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data | The Economist]]> http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource

A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital era.

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Mon, 08 May 2017 06:35:27 -0700 http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource
<![CDATA[Your Echo Chamber is Destroying Democracy | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/2016/11/filter-bubble-destroying-democracy/

On November 7, 2016, the day before the US election, I compared the number of social media followers, website performance, and Google search statistics of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I was shocked when the data revealed the extent of Trump’s popularity.

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Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:21:30 -0800 https://www.wired.com/2016/11/filter-bubble-destroying-democracy/
<![CDATA[The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic]]> https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention

“I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The point of his saunter had been to “forget all my morning occupations, and my obligations to society.

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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:07:11 -0700 https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention
<![CDATA[How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare - The Atlantic]]> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goes-viral/501125/

Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a movie release, #AllEyesOnISIS announced the 2014 invasion of northern Iraq—a bloody takeover that still haunts global politics two years later.

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Sun, 16 Oct 2016 07:47:08 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goes-viral/501125/