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27 Are We Adjusting to Our Devices, or Are They Adjusting to Us?
The tools we use to connect also serve to construct our social realities. This creates a fascinating tension between the built-in political values of our digital architectures and the collective norms we develop to navigate them.In this episode, we unpack the academic foundations of how digital platforms mediate human-to-human contact. We move away from short-lived tech features to discuss how mediation co-shapes our subjectivity, altering how we view ourselves and construct our shared world.The concept of multi-stability, shown by how tools like typewriters evolved from assistive devices for…
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