Why You Can’t Log Off

Описание: We keep asking whether technology is helping or harming us. But that misses the point. Social platforms don’t just deliver content, they train behavior, rewarding reaction over reflection and emotion over depth. Rage bait, anxiety loops, and FOMO aren’t side effects — they’re the design. The result isn’t just distraction. It’s dependency. #socialmedia

This video was inspired by Youtuber MAGIC's video
Watch their work here:    • the chronically online will become a new u...  

FURTHER RESEARCH & READING:
New Yorker – Infinite Scroll / AI & Underclass:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf...
The Digital Underclass Glitch: Theorizing a Digital Labor Public through Fiction
https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/i...
Digital Underclass: What Happens When the Libraries Die?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/digital...
The Echo Chamber Effect on Social Media
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Attention Economy (UN Report):
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/f...
Open Library Humanities – Attention Economy Research:
https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/i...
NDSMC Observer – Chronically Online:
https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article...
Medium – Effects of Being Chronically Online:
  / the-effects-of-being-chronically-online-an...  
Tech Detox – How the Attention Economy Profits from Outrage:
https://www.techdetoxbox.com/weapons-...
The Attention Economy and How Media Works by Karen Nelson Field
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

00:00 Introduction
03:40 My Space & Black Twitter
07:47 Digitally Marginalized
10:30 Karl Marx Labor Theory
13:01 Algorithms, Tribalism and Control
15:35 Rage Bait
16:33 Demoderation, Disassociation , Nihilism
17:38 Cultural Extraction
19:47 The Anxiety Economy
20:02 W.E.B Dubois Double Consciousness
21:46 FOMO
22:54 Frantz Fanon
26:11 Social Media Mimics History

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