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Damon Krukowski

The New Analog

  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    This is where we take our headphones off. Noise has value. It communicates location, proximity, and depth. It
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    tests the limits of our individual perception, and binds us together in shared time. Why shouldn’t it want to be expensive
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    record purchased in a store is rarely heard just once. It is relatively expensive and will likely be listened to accordingly: on different occasions, with different people, for different reasons
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    However, Facebook sorts those posts using algorithms to determine which it considers signal—bringing those to our attention—and screening out those that are, in its estimation, noise
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    We are each an isolated signal to social media, just as its algorithms deliver us nothing but isolated signals
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    What was built in their wake is social media. Facebook launched in 2004; Twitter in 2006; Instagram in 2010
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    noise conveys information we use for a full perception of sound, including its location, proximity, and context
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    But to benefit from that savings, you had to accept Napster’s definition of music as the signal conveyed by a digital sound file.

    Do you
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The signal of a book was redefined as title, author, and price. The rest was noise, to paraphrase Shakespeare via Alex Ross
  • Roberto Garzahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    In digital media, signal alone is treated as information, and noise is eliminated. This represents a loss of information—the information communicated by noise.
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