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Date: Fri Jan 31 22:52:41 +0100
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-Fear not! This talk is not yet another talk about the crisis of social media.
+OK so this talk is not yet another talk about the crisis of social media.
We believe that in the past years there has been a lot of social media critique, perhaps even a surplus. On the other hand, very little attention has been given to what people are doing concretely, when they take such critiques to heart.
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# Everything is a meme
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-And if you do that for more than a decade, you end up with everything having to be a meme to have any chance at being noticeable in social media.
+Now the problem is if you do that for more than a decade, you end up with everything looking like a meme to have any chance at being noticeable in social media.
-But there's something that was completely unforseen...
+But there's something else that was completely unforseen...
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# Language
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-and that was how memes became a language through which collective identities could emerge and be stronger, to the point of creating hostile and toxic environments for some communities. But also made painfully visible how content moderation on coporate social media platforms was always ideologically biased.
+and that was how memes became a language.
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+A language through which new collective identities could emerge. And would also permit existing subcultures to be stronger.
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+And this to the point of turning commercial social media into hostile and toxic environments for some communities. But it also made painfully visible how content moderation on coporate social media platforms was always biased.
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# Moving out of the global village
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-As a result all those that ended up excluded or harmed in these environments have become interested in migrating to platforms that they can control themselves, reversing the narrative of the universal global village, and the tech industry claim of connecting the world without friction.
+As a result all those that ended up excluded or harmed in these environments became interested in migrating to platforms that they can control themselves, reversing the narrative of the universal global village, and the tech industry claim of connecting the world without friction.
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