When critiquing social media, I sometimes fall into the trap of assuming that tech companies want to dictate our behavior through some combination of surveillance and algorithmic control, affording merely illusory forms of participation, expression, and agency that have the actual effect of circumscribing them. This would have its apotheosis in a behaviorist nightmare world where predictive analytics have become so thorough and precise that we exist in a state of pure passivity, conditioned to want only what is set before us once we hear the Pavlovian bells.
To Deny Oneself Is a Luxury
To Deny Oneself Is a Luxury
To Deny Oneself Is a Luxury
When critiquing social media, I sometimes fall into the trap of assuming that tech companies want to dictate our behavior through some combination of surveillance and algorithmic control, affording merely illusory forms of participation, expression, and agency that have the actual effect of circumscribing them. This would have its apotheosis in a behaviorist nightmare world where predictive analytics have become so thorough and precise that we exist in a state of pure passivity, conditioned to want only what is set before us once we hear the Pavlovian bells.