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  • The Thumbnail-Trust Ratio

    It feels now that YouTube will recommend you videos you’ve already watched, they don’t care about you watching anything new, it’s actually such a naive thing to believe that they have any other goal about from user retention, advertisers, and engagement. The Thumbnail-Trust Ratio is one of these processes.

  • QOA: The Ideology of Entertainment

    Think of Entertainment as its own ideology, a funnel that shapes content that incorporates it. Entertainment dominates over any medium, media, genre, technology, or industry it is implemented in. It becomes the primary way we understand life. Appearances from Postman, Dyer, Byung-Chul Han, Artz, and more.

  • QOA: Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

    More than 10 quotes from McLuhan’s Understanding Media, Extensions of Man.

  • QOA: Information & Data

    Appearances from Wittel, Fuchs, Mosco, Schiller, and more.

  • QOA: Accelerationism

    Accelerationism is the belief that we must drastically intensify capitalism’s growth and power to allow it to reach its breaking point. That is a very reductionist and simplified definition. The Wikipedia page for it is not bad for a brief overview, but ofc not as a satisfactory place for a takeaway. This week is definitely…

  • QOA: Mass Media, Advertising, & Audiences

    Appearances from Smythe, Herman & Chomsky, Chun, Barber, and more.

  • QOA: Computers, Machines, & Cyberspace

    Appearances from Brenda Laurel, Mark Poster, Tiziana Terranova, Sadie Plant, and more.

  • QOA: Consumption

    Appearances from Baudrillard, Benet-Weiser, Fisher, and more.