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"How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Friends"

New effort by [[Cory Doctorow]] and EFF.

"Facebook is fundamentally an advertising machine"—it hasn't been about bringing people closer together in a long time (if that was ever its real mission). And as a better advertising machine comes along—TikTok—Facebook is forced to redesign its user interaction to be more addictive just to stand still. Will a a more human-scale social network...or series of social networks...replace it?

Proactive Approach to Handling Abusive Comments

Interesting that they took a more nuanced approach to this problem. Something more heavy-handed would have added a time delay or limit on the number of comments by a particular user. Instead, they chose to model the conversations and have the app offer pop-ups based on that. Another alternative would be something like [[social credit score]].

Progression of Concerns about the Private Social Space

The private social spaces don't make themselves available to research analysis, so we have this vague feeling that something is wrong with only empirical evidence that we can't really test.

Private Social Space

The First Amendment ("free speech") guides what speech the government can control. The social networks are private companies, so the control is over who gets to say what in that private, social space. Is there an analog about who gets to say what in a bar...is it the bar owner? (The bar being an example of another public, social space.)

Nigg, C., Petersen, E., & MacIntyre, T. (2021). Natural Environments, Psychosocial Health, and Health Behaviors during COVID-19 – A Scoping Review. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a9unf

Regenerative Ventures

Out of the Trimtab Space Camp course with the Buckminster Fuller Institute in which we were exploring world building with Tony Patrick, Langdon Roberts, Jeremy Lubman, Elsie Iwase, and I gathered to think about how we could become involved in regenerative ventures. This was our initiative, in which we met weekly to think about how we manifest who we are as a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. The thought was that architecture grows out of values, principles, and intention.

COVID-19 Activity Risk Levels. (n.d.). Ezekiel Emanuel | COVID-19 Activity Risk Levels. Retrieved July 8, 2020, from http://www.ezekielemanuel.com/writing/all-articles/2020/06/30/covid-19-activity-risk-levels

What Happens to Public Space When Everything Moves Outside. (2020, June 29). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-29/what-happens-to-public-space-when-everything-moves-outside

This is how much people in different countries value personal space. (2017, May 2). The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/personal-space-boundaries-different-countries-argentina-uk-romania-a7713051.html

Papageorge, N. W., Zahn, M. V., Belot, M., van den Broek-Altenburg, E., Choi, S., Jamison, J. C., & Tripodi, E. (2020). Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Working Paper No. 27378; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27378

Cook, D. (2020 May 07). Five workplace trends will shape life after lockdown. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/five-workplace-trends-will-shape-life-after-lockdown-138077

Curtis, D. S., Rigolon, A., Schmalz, D. L., & Brown, B. (2020). Getting out while staying in: Park use decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially where park availability was low [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9xzgf

5 Innovations in Behavioural Design for Physical Distancing. (2020 May 06) https://www.behaviouralbydesign.co.nz/post/5-innovations-in-behavioural-design-for-physical-distancing

Tingley, K. (2020, June 10). How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/architecture-covid.html

San Francisco plans to offer sidewalks, streets, public spaces for business activity. (2020, May 27). SFChronicle.Com. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/San-Francisco-plans-to-offer-sidewalks-streets-15295445.php

Savage, M. (2020, May 10). A return to work is on the cards. What are the fears and legal pitfalls? The Guardian | The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/09/coronavirus-return-to-work-employment-law-logistical-nightmare

Space-time distanciation theory.

See also: Adam - 1990 - Time for Social Theory

Disconnection

Courses. Mapping. Focus.

Timezone confusion. Competence

Being able to picture the person in a physical context in which one has walked.