nathanjurgenson

@nathanjurgenson

social media theorist, editor in chief , co-founder & co-chair Theorizing the Web , sociologist , author The Social Photo (2019)

los angeles california
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Joined August 2009
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    4 Feb 2019

    excited to say i wrote a book about photography and social media! it's out with in April and you can pre-order it now if you'd like:

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  2. 23 minutes ago

    i want to make a Deep Nostalgia Space Nine joke but

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    Feb 28

    So I ran a film still of Nicolas Cage through MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia thing.

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    1 hour ago
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    deep also plays with the dualism surface/depth, which comes from the mind/body split. So it's a way to say the merchandise is "minded"

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    deep also strikes me as a "positive" description for "creepy"—with all of the word's culturally loaded connotations around power, norms, ideology. reframing the absence of political/ethical considerations as esoteric enquiry. eg the person as black box

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  6. 1 hour ago

    the "deep" prefix is the important part of "deep nostalgia." those images aren't very lifelike, think it's more an excitement for the tech, math as magic

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  7. 1 hour ago

    e-, cyber = now on computers! 2.0 = a new iteration that always teased a "3.0" smart = "convenience", easy, tech for everyone deep = appeals to the uncanny, computers and math as magic, with results that are surprising

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  8. 1 hour ago

    seems like the "deep" prefix has fully joined "cyber", "smart", "2.0", "e-", etc as ways of selling something as tech-y. each did so in their own way

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  9. Feb 27

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  10. Feb 26

    in inboxes now! you should have subscribed because Rob’s NFT analysis is really solid

    please subscribe to the Real Life newsletter! if you do, you will be able to read my rant about NFTs later this afternoon
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  11. Retweeted
    Feb 25

    Pretty proud of this article, bringing together a lot of different thoughts about how racism, misogyny + transphobia function as labor discipline and hype, how they shape games and games culture, and how it's at the cutting edge of capitalist restructuring

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  12. Feb 26

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  13. Feb 26

    social, cultural, conceptual, historical concerns may not be represented, but also imagine an audio room of Clubhouse users talking “internet theory” 🤢

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  14. Feb 26

    i wrote off the app forever when the “knowledge” section had psychology as a topic but not sociology haha

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  15. Feb 26

    how Clubhouse understands possible interests in technology lol no way the conversations are good here, right?

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    Feb 25

    Conversations around major video games serve oppressive labor practices, lazy design, and the intolerant minority of gamers "Goon Squads" by

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    Feb 22

    😎

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    Feb 17

    so adding or removing "news content" doesn't change the amount of "truth" available there — Facebook's model of circulation turns everything it ingests into untruth, or into something whose main purpose is to circulate

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    Feb 17

    • This AI does not "read children's emotions" • There are not seven universal emotions • Facial muscle data does not correlate reliably with a person's inner state Covid is being used as a pretext to install this in remote classes, then keep it.

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    Feb 16

    doomscrolling is the quintessence of boredom; to the "attention economy" it is "consumers enjoying their surplus"

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    Feb 16

    "attention economy" is an ideological description that tries to rationalize treating communication as a commodity

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