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From the Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy Social Media

From the Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy

Pinocchio's Pleasure Island may be an apt metaphor of our times

Elena RossiniOctober 23, 2024

Joining the Fediverse Announcements

Joining the Fediverse

The Realists joins the Fediverse: this website will have its own social profile on there…

Elena RossiniSeptember 3, 2024

Cameras everywhere: navigating consent in this brave new online world Longread

Cameras everywhere: navigating consent in this brave new online world

Cameras everywhere: what happens when we become unwitting content for someone else's social media? Reflections…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

The envy of others? Longread

The envy of others?

Are we naturally inclined to seek the envy of others? Are online platforms designed to…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Aligning our life goals with our technology use LongreadStart Here!

Aligning our life goals with our technology use

Stand Out of Our Light I just finished reading James Wilson Williams's brilliant book Stand Out…

Elena RossiniOctober 24, 2024

Down with Metrics: The Exquisite Joys of an Unquantifiable Life Longread

Down with Metrics: The Exquisite Joys of an Unquantifiable Life

There is a lot of value and happiness to be found in private, unseen, unquantifiable…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Programmatic advertising and distracted minds: a match made in (Internet) heaven AdvertisingLongread

Programmatic advertising and distracted minds: a match made in (Internet) heaven

What is programmatic advertising and why should we care about it? And how does the…

Elena RossiniOctober 23, 2024

The real enemy of a Realist isn’t Big Tech… It’s Indifference Longread

The real enemy of a Realist isn’t Big Tech… It’s Indifference

Big Tech isn't the enemy - the real problem is INDIFFERENCE to the monumental changes…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

How to be a realist in an extremely online world * Fave *LongreadStart Here!

How to be a realist in an extremely online world

What is a realist? Someone who deeply cherishes life in the real world over life…

Elena RossiniOctober 24, 2024

Instagram vs. Reality? FaceApp and the uncanny world of photo editing apps * Fave **Most Popular*Longread

Instagram vs. Reality? FaceApp and the uncanny world of photo editing apps

Mass media and advertising are no longer the main illusionists in our culture. WE ARE.…

Elena RossiniOctober 23, 2024

Status update: what is happening with the documentary The Realists? * Fave *Announcements

Status update: what is happening with the documentary The Realists?

An update about the status of the documentary THE REALISTS on the dark side of…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Why social media platforms glorify the present Article

Why social media platforms glorify the present

Social media platforms have an ideological bias: they glorify the present. Why? Follow the money…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

The Pressure to be popular is purely for profit ArticleLongread

The Pressure to be popular is purely for profit

Being seen, being visible, commanding positive attention on the internet is the new status symbol.

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Do we really want to mix communication and advertising? Longread

Do we really want to mix communication and advertising?

"Social media" companies are built on a big lie: they don't care about us socializing;…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

What is media ecology? A must-know term in the age of the ‘metaverse’ ArticleStart Here!

What is media ecology? A must-know term in the age of the ‘metaverse’

Writer Neil Postman warned us: "A new technology does not add or subtract something. It…

Elena RossiniOctober 24, 2024

Coronavirus & the Normalization of Mass Surveillance ArticleLongread

Coronavirus & the Normalization of Mass Surveillance

While people are feeling anxious and insecure over Coronavirus, governments around the world are exploiting…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

What Coronavirus can teach us about life Article

What Coronavirus can teach us about life

Italian psychologist Francesca Morelli shares some observations about the life lessons we can learn from…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

One month of (unintentional) Digital Minimalism Longread

One month of (unintentional) Digital Minimalism

Moving to a new apartment has forced me to be on a low-tech / digital…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Are you watching TV… or is the TV watching you? Article

Are you watching TV… or is the TV watching you?

We've entered a brave new world of "Smart TVs": virtually all television sets now record,…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

Quitting Whatsapp & Pulling Back the Curtain on Facebook’s Grand Illusion Article

Quitting Whatsapp & Pulling Back the Curtain on Facebook’s Grand Illusion

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024