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#Internet #SocialMedia #DigitalLife

p.218:

Lucy is an invitation to loosen our grip on the human subject, not merely through consciousness of radically nonhuman, multiscalar ecology, but additionally through an openness to reconceiving subjectivity as existing between scales, an openness to dissociation, to inhabiting the loop in which scalar processes compose the subjects that compose scales that compose new subjects."

#scale #MediaTheory #DigitalLife

p.216:

"the recursive self would be multiscalar in its perspectival register. Like the train-­hopping itinerants of American folklore, the recursive self would be, by necessity, scale-­nomadic. But also like them, it would be free to follow the trans-­scalar infrastructures of its milieu, to hop a ride when necessary and thereby trace a continuity between non-contiguous scales."

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

p.215:

"My argument in the second half of this chapter has been that the same digital forms that entrap us in our current milieu also deliver the tools to extend that milieu, and thereby subjectivity."

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory #identity

p.208:

"Recursive address flattens ecological detail across scales, while causing the subject to confront itself as its own milieu."

#scale #DigitalLife

p.202:

"We face, as surveilled digital subjects, a strange dissociation between the scale of our narrative histories (encoded in narrative memory) and the scale of our database histories (encoded in computer memory). "

I'm not going to quibble with the use of 'encoding' here, that's a discussion for another time...

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

p.201:

"Wendy Chun has noted a modal shift, as digital media reaches critical mass, from “memory” to “storage.” (Biological) memory produces and arises from the classical self, from a unified perspective, in a narrative mode. “Memory contains within it the act of repetition: it is an act of commemoration—a process of recollecting or remembering.” "

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

For a few pages we have an interesting analysis of both the implicit cognitive science, and the explicit cinematographic techniques involved in the vertiginous opening credits of the film "Limitless".

https://youtu.be/768lISZY9oE?t=115

Camerawork: A zoom from roof to street, block to block, then brain to neuron to brain...

#CogSci : memory as database, any memory equally accessible.

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

p.193:

"Tracing the scales of capital has become imperative, and continued fixation on the presumptively scale-­fragile human subject merely plays into its hands by chaining us to one scale while capital plays out its effects at others. "

See also:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/05/oliver-sacks-human-scale/

#scale #MediaTheory #DigitalLife

p. 191:

"Database, then, an ostensibly
human invention intended to render visible new scalar milieus, and thus inaugurate new scalar events, has turned out to be monstrous in the classical sense: it has created a world that is not recognizably human in that it no longer addresses the human and no longer respects the boundaries of the liberal subject."

#scale #MediaTheory #DigitalLife

p.185:

"Relational databases, on
the other hand, can only be queried about sets...Each query,
then, produces a newly structured set of data that is novel in the sense that the relationships it expresses or models were not present in the initial act of entry into the database."

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

p.180:
"The database wants to forget how to zoom. This is its greatest trick."

#scale #DigitalLife #MediaTheory

p.173:

"The parameterization of data collection (what we might call its thickness or depth) may expand, but parameters must pass through disciplinary optics and become operationalized before they are articulated in
any way."

Or, data don't "speak for themselves", but only gain their meaning when incorporated into disciplinary practices.

The definition I learned as undergrad: "Data are numbers in context." #ContextChangesEverything

#scale #DigitalLife

p.173:

"Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford contend that “Big Data is less about data that is big than it is about a capacity to search, aggregate, and cross-­reference large data sets.” "

'Big Data' is not one thing. It's a collection of technologies that enable managing content in particular ways.

#scale #DigitalLife #BigData

Horton, Z. (2020). The Cosmic Zoom. Chicago University Press.

Getting back to this for the last (principal) chapter. Horton gearing up to talk about how considering human experience as scalable implies or affects what we think human experience is.

#scale #MediaTheory #DigitalLife

Yesterday afternoon, I decided to conduct an experiment. Let me clarify, it holds no scientific validity. I'm connected to various people across multiple social networks. Some contacts overlap, others (like on #Facebook) are primarily known from 'real' life. I try to live with positivity and optimism, and this sentiment reflects in my posts on social networks. Any #algorithm should recognize this. However... in the #Fediverse, I see beautiful pictures, technical posts, constructive dialogues, occasional negativity, sporadic hate speech but, overall, the experience is relaxing, enjoyable, and pleasant 😌. On #Twitter and Facebook, on the other hand, I'm immediately confronted with irritating posts or normal posts filled with bickering comments. In general, the experience is much more negative, gloomy, and depressing 😞.

I've realized that the algorithm thrives on people's negativity. Irritated people engage more, respond more. In short, they use social media and see their ads more frequently.

I strongly feel that someone in this world has realized that there's much to gain from #angry people 😡.

#SocialMedia #OnlineExperience #DigitalLife #Mastodon #SocialNetworks #Engagement

WhatsApp will soon let you run multiple accounts on the same phone. Here’s how it looks like #apps #digitallife #featured #news #socialmedia #whatsapp #whatsappbeta #whatsappmulti-account - https://soyacincau.com/2023/06/16/whatsapp-will-soon-let-you-run-multiple-accounts-on-the-same-phone-heres-how-it-looks-like/

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