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Appy Polly Loggies, O My Netizens!
If you have read my posts here to date, where I’m trying to say things which either don’t need saying in the first place or are getting said much better by others, then, sorry. I apologize for wasting your time. I would like to come across as smart, hip, humorous, insightful, worldly, witty, eclectic, provocative, and prolific—worthwhile, y’know, for the right audience. And not just come across that way, but actually be that way for readers.
What Is the Information Circus?
The information circus is my way of mapping an understanding of how the basic elements of our daily existence in language created spaces behave and how they are related to one another. Schematically: A lot of the problems with “news” aka “social media” are happening along the Phenomena -> Data -> Information path. It used to be very expensive to make Phenomena into Data, so we thought Information was really valuable, which turns out to not necessarily be the case.
Breaking News
In a stunning act of national unity, the people of the United States seem to be realizing, all at once, that what everybody had previously thought was “The News” was in actual fact “Social Media” the whole time! The thing that made it look different, back then, is that the “social” part of “social media” was made up of powerful upper class information entities, either businesses or people, who were the media—or more correctly, who were the message—but now the social part is made up of everybody (anybody) who can understand the channel, and who, it is increasingly apparent, are not necessarily guaranteed to be the channel owners.
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