DIGITAL COMMUNITIES AND ONLINE PLATFORMS
Enshittification rules: there goes the post-platform internet era
Enshittification, the idea that online platforms, particularly social networks and social media, degrade once they become popular, is a fiction, according to Ruby Thelot, Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory, at New York University. Because, rather than turning away from from the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, people continue to embrace these platforms. […]
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
INTERNET CULTURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
My Feed My Way will make Instagram feeds overwhelming says Adam Mosseri
Ange Lavoipierre, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), quoting Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (IG): “If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers. Creators get drowned out, and then your friends get drowned out even more.” These are the words of the Head […]
ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Unmasking Italian author Elena Ferrante, because we must
There’s been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a pseudonym. And despite writing novels since 1992, her identity, their identity, has, so far, remained […]
INTERNET CULTURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Proposed Australian laws allow social media users to opt of algorithms
It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media. But not quite. The Australian government is proposing to give local social media users the choice to opt out the algorithms that determine the content they see. If the laws eventuate, social media companies will be obliged to allow their members to only see content […]
ANIKA WELLS
MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT
In last week’s edition of Dense Discovery, publisher Kai Brach linked to an article, written by Kate Wagner, challenging the notion that our phones are over overpoweringly addictive. But they are, aren’t they? To Wagner’s mind, excessive smartphone use is a behaviour we have developed. But what is at the root of this behaviour? What […]
KATE WAGNER