No Man’s Sky explores the loneliness of the networked life
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Feelings and How to Mine Them
About a month ago, Facebook released a redesigned “like” feature, with the addition of animated emoji to represent 5 additional emotions. Now, in addition to liking something, you can love (heart) it or react with haha, wow, sad, or angry emoji. Facebook only used to know whether or not you “liked” something, or, rather, whether or […]
Can We Be In Sync? A Review of Pettman’s Infinite Distraction
Infinite Distraction is a polemical look at the state of the internet and social media. Dominic Petman, a Professor of Culture and Media at the New School in NYC, expanded it from a Facebook post he wrote into a book looking at the ways in which new media increasingly modulates daily experience, through the creation […]
