Well said. The point about everything interaction having to have a goal, or 'conversion'...i just listened to an interview on the podcast Offline (from Pod Save America's Jon Favreau) and the discussion was about how these two-way screens that have taken over our lives has made us feel like everyone else is a character, a back-up player. There's a blurring of seeing posts, all in a row, of a friend, a stranger, a famous person. It warps us and makes us even more likely to feel disconnected vs. what all this social media was supposedly about.
What an interesting take—that flattening that can happen through those screens. It reminds me of a point that Robin Reames made in her book "The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself" (highly recommended, by the way!) about how the role of “media,” social media, and The Media lives its name: literally, and linguistically, as a mediator, an in-between or go-between.
She was making the point that we've come to forget that the news, or what passes for it, and much (if not all) we see on a screen these days is a mediated form of conversation, subject to algorithms and the biases of the algorithms that determine even what “counts” enough to be shown to us.
Well said. The point about everything interaction having to have a goal, or 'conversion'...i just listened to an interview on the podcast Offline (from Pod Save America's Jon Favreau) and the discussion was about how these two-way screens that have taken over our lives has made us feel like everyone else is a character, a back-up player. There's a blurring of seeing posts, all in a row, of a friend, a stranger, a famous person. It warps us and makes us even more likely to feel disconnected vs. what all this social media was supposedly about.
What an interesting take—that flattening that can happen through those screens. It reminds me of a point that Robin Reames made in her book "The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself" (highly recommended, by the way!) about how the role of “media,” social media, and The Media lives its name: literally, and linguistically, as a mediator, an in-between or go-between.
She was making the point that we've come to forget that the news, or what passes for it, and much (if not all) we see on a screen these days is a mediated form of conversation, subject to algorithms and the biases of the algorithms that determine even what “counts” enough to be shown to us.