## The internet is changing culture… - [[{3.1} algorithmic monoculture]] - [[{3.1a} algorithmic monoculture requires memeification and turns users into evangelists]] - [[{3.1a1} algorithmic monoculture is memeifying our politics]] - [[{3.1a2} memes are units of cultural transmission]] - [[{3.1b} how algorithmic monoculture creates fragmentation]] - [[{3.1c} how algorithmic monoculture creates homogenization]] - [[{3.1d} the algorithm has replaced culture-building]] - [[{3.1d1} algorithmic monoculture is the memeification of culture-building]] - [[{3.1e} social media engagement is reproductive labor]] ## … And subcultures - [[{3.2} aesthetics are the new conceptual subculture]] - [[{3.2a} performative aesthetics give you access to the trappings of community]] - [[{3.2b} aesthetics as part of a subculture]] - [[{3.2c} formula for embodying a particular aesthetic]] ## … And childhood - [[{3.3} we don't have a cultural childhood anymore]] - [[{3.3a} the algorithm is changing childhood]] - [[{3.3a1} the internet is for children because they give the most currency in the attention economy]] - [[{3.3b} we don't have a cultural adulthood anymore]] - [[{3.3b1} the infantilization of millennial women]] ## Doppelganger culture - [[{3.4} we're living in a doppelganger culture where we act as other to people's beliefs]] - [[{3.4a} your online presence is a doppelganger]] - [[{3.4a1} the machine-made doppelganger is our real digital doppelganger]] - [[{3.4a1a} platforms own our digital identities]] - [[{3.4b} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media]] - [[{3.4b1} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable]] - [[{3.4c} overton window is shifting left and right]] ## Big tech - [[tech gets big through network effects and stays big because of high switching costs]] - [[computers are universal which gives them inherently low switching costs and intrinsic interoperability]] - [[the answer to controlling big tech is forcing interoperability]] - [[we deputize tech companies with governmental and law enforcement responsibilities]] - [[fraud in google search engine results pages]] - [[crisis pregnancy centers target abortion-related keywords to show up at the top of serps]] - [[what we think of as algorithmic radicalization is just how most of us surf the web]] - [[data voids are gaps in information online]] - [[media manipulators exploit data voids by capitalizing on missing data and the logic of algorithms and search engines]] - [[disinformation works because it plays on our existing biases]] - [[closing your own knowledge gaps makes it harder for people to exploit what you don't know]] - [[they know about cellphones]] - [[media literacy does not address epistemological differences]] - [[media literacy requires people to doubt what they see]] - [[we cannot assert authority over epistemology]] - [[misinformation can be a scapegoat for declining trust in institutions]] - [[we combat misinformation by building trust]] - [[we don't just disagree on the shape of reality, we disagree on who is in reality]] - [[technical surveillance allows people to travel through time and space]] | we’re losing *ourselves* to the cloud - ~ **jump to** [[#1. identity and knowing the self thru time]], [[{1.1c1d1} your search and browsing histories build a resonance calendar|{1.1a1a4f}]] - [[we should be able to view, edit, navigate, and use the data tracked about us through our digital tools and environments]] - [[technofeudalism is a system dominated by cloud capital]] - [[cloud proles]] - [[cloud serfs]] - [[cloud fiefs]] - [[vassal capitalists]] - [[cloud rent]] - [[cloudalists are not selling us a commodity for profit]] - [[there is no singular experience of the internet]] - [[hard vs. soft technologies]] - [[natural language as a soft technology]] - [[computing as a soft technology]] - [[computing as a technological disruption to natural language]]