Yesterday, a podcast called Content Mines put forward a theory about the experience of seeing images of war in social feeds like TikTok, saying that it creates a “structural dissonance”: an “inherent weirdness of viewing the horrors of real life through the trivializing structures of the internet.” This fits with the prefatory remarks that media commentators often seem to feel obliged to make in their analyses, that it is
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Yesterday, a podcast called Content Mines put forward a theory about the experience of seeing images of war in social feeds like TikTok, saying that it creates a “structural dissonance”: an “inherent weirdness of viewing the horrors of real life through the trivializing structures of the internet.” This fits with the prefatory remarks that media commentators often seem to feel obliged to make in their analyses, that it is