Notes

internet users en masse being siloed by unnecessarily proprietary platforms and non-interoperable data formats

freedom of movement in ‘fediverse’ and similar ecosystems

internet platforms as compared to physically isolated locations

boundaries, entrance, mediated communications

affiliations, groupings, territory

metaphors for these spaces

Mentions

“Since the introduction of timeline, one might see Facebook as a passport to participating in the most prevalent form of capturing, mediating, and archiving personal life accounts.”

“Facebook locks the subject into a specific techno-economic regime of navigation through mediated memories. There is a contract and transaction written into every passport. In return for the right to freely cross borders, the authority has right to control this mobility, while acquiring insight into the subject’s personal information.” -> ⤴️

social media feed as data assemblage

(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1784-0773)
the term assemblage refers to “wholes whose properties emerge from the interactions between parts” (DeLanda, 2006: 5).
Items are reconfigurable, exist on their own and aren’t restricted to one category
‘curation is often associated with some form of value creation. ’ - can’t just be a collection, can’t be made by AI
experiential value !!!! Or social value or analytical value -> economic value
“curatorial labor” (Scolere and Humphreys, 2016). Of course, there is no clear boundary between users who consume social media content and those who produce it. Many people who interact with social media are “prosumers” (Ritzer and Jurgenson, 2010) and participate in both practices simultaneously.
content creators as a particularly influential group in any curatorial assemblage (Carah, 2014; Davis, 2017: 772–773) because they engage in practices of creating and selecting, of editing and contextualizing, of sharing and making visible, and of embedding and circulating social media content.