benefits of contextualised content
- decontextualised are lacking authorship
- lacking info on perspectives/purposes embedded in its creation
- ‘raw’ or ‘atomic’ is still contestable - what is an atom in this context, anything that provides meaning? right down to a single bit? ‘raw’ likely still has context embedded in it that is now obscured and assumed universal. define everything, everything relies on something else, everything takes a perspective
- satire, devices employed for teaching, unfiltered early thoughts etc taken out of context of their assumed truth/falsity/etc
- cross-cultural mismatch, translation error
examples of decontextualisation issues
Section titled “examples of decontextualisation issues”- “The assemblage he was proposed as a summary of his mediated memories was, to a large extent, the result of a randomized procedure incapable of making moral and ethical judgments. Where the human aspect fell short, he argued “was in not providing a way to opt out.” The Year in Review kept appearing on his Facebook wall with, at times, a swapped background image, yet always retaining the same, celebratory aura. Meyer pointed out that the year in review revealed Facebook’s bias toward success stories” ⤴️
- “Meyer’s mediated memory became captured in two senses: firstly, through the algorithmic procedure mechanically scavenging on the image of his daughter, while extracting all emotional residue it carried. Secondly, he was captured in an inescapable feedback loop, mechanically re-posting this traumatic moment without his consent. This entrapment in a loop was avoidable only to a certain degree – if Meyer opted out from Facebook” ⤴️
- “about an instance where Facebook’s algorithm suggested he befriend his ex-wife’s lover.” ⤴️