There seems to be a number of issues with the positive and negative feedback systems these social media companies are trying to create. What are they really measuring? The either aren't measuring well or aren't designing well (or both?)...

follow up on this for the relevant forthcoming paper....

Social media has slowly moved away from communication between people who know each other to people who are farther apart in social spaces. Increasingly in 2021 onward, some platforms like TikTok have acted as a distribution platform and ignored explicit social connections like follower/followee in lieu of algorithmic-only feeds to distribute content to people based on a variety of criteria including popularity of content and the readers' interests.

Brian Eno's experiments in generative music mirror some of the ideas of generative and experimental fiction which had been in the zeitgeist and developing for a while.

Certainly the fictional ideas were influential to the zeitgeist here, but the technology for doing these sorts of things in the musical realm lagged the ability to do them in the word realm.

We're just starting to see some of these sorts of experimental things in the film space and with artificial intelligence they're becoming much easier to do in all of these media spaces.

In some of the film spaces, they exist, but may tend to be short in nature, in part given the technology and processing power required.

see also: Deepfake TikTok of Keanu Reeves which I've recently run across (algorithmically) on Instagram: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/unreal-keanu-reeves-ai-deepfake/

Had anyone been working on generative art? Marcel Duchamp, et al? Some children's toys can mechanically create generative art which can be subtly modified by the children using axes of color, form, etc. Etch-a-sketch, kaleidoscopes, doodling robots (eg: https://www.amazon.com/4M-Doodling-Robot-Packaging-Vary/dp/B002EWWW9O).

TikToks can easily go viral across the world, because video and music can be interpreted regardless of language.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-teacher-says-she-fired-171921981.html#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16593976639480&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fformer-teacher-says-she-fired-171921981.html

When parody is consumed as news, and the fake news spreads.

.c2 Likely the best way to achieve this is on a platform with shortform introductory content that can then funnel you to high quality longform content. This already exists in a unofficial way on Youtube and Tiktok, but no platform would commit to it (as it is taking people away from their site). Readwise could do this through their supplemental highlights feature.

Perhaps an interesting example of a murder board for J.D. Connor?

What a fantastic glimpse of our current culture.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-influencer-journalists-should-not-be-the-future-of-journalism

Hypehouse (collab house) examples: * https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22877013/hype-house-netflix-show * https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a34655703/tiktok-sway-house/ * https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/tiktok-house-collab-house-the-anxiety-of-influencers/ * Does Clubhouse, the app, count? It seemed like a hypehouse for hyping hype.

What happens when hype runs amok?

Oladipo, G. (2021, November 14). ‘Detox’ routines won’t undo Covid vaccine, experts tell anti-vaxxers. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/covid-vaccine-mandate-detox-borax-bath

Grierson, J., Milmo, D., & Farah, H. (2021, October 8). Revealed: Anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/08/revealed-anti-vaccine-tiktok-videos-viewed-children-as-young-as-nine-covid

CNN, R. J. (n.d.). “Tell all your TikTok buddies to get vaccinated”: Fauci finds a new way to fight Covid-19. CNN. Retrieved August 19, 2021, from https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/03/politics/fauci-tiktok-youth-vaccinations/index.html

“Fact Check-Video Does Not Show Australian Children with COVID-19 Being Separated from Their Parents.” Reuters, August 20, 2021, sec. Reuters Fact Check. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-australia-children-idUSL1N2PR183.

Stephan Lewandowsky. (2021, June 20). Our amazing @SciBeh volunteers are launching on TikTok with messages about vaccine hesitancy: Https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdSt4fEm/ @Sander_vdLinden @roozenbot @adamhfinn @CorneliaBetsch @PhilippMSchmid @philipplenz6 @AnaSKozyreva [Tweet]. @STWorg. https://twitter.com/STWorg/status/1406671504465670144

We've come so far from the time when the young and wealthy went on the Grand Tours of Italy and various parts of Europe.

An apt definition of TikTok.

Tommy Shane on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 14 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/tommyshane/status/1357385093514461184

Team Halo on Twitter. (2020). Twitter. Retrieved 5 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/projecthalo/status/1333786890642677762

I love all of these ideas. It's all-around edifying!

Dante Licona. (2020, December 8). What can NGOs, government and public institutions do on TikTok? Today @melisfiganmese and I shared some insights at #EuroPCom, the @EU_CoR conference for public communication. We were asked to talk about upcoming social media trends. Here’s a thread with some insights👇 https://t.co/GzOA66vstQ [Tweet]. @Dante_Licona. https://twitter.com/Dante_Licona/status/1336303773334069251

IrrationalLabs. (2021, February 3). We designed an intervention that reduced shares of flagged content on TikTok by 24% via a large scale RCT, thread 👇1/7 [Tweet]. @IrrationalLabs. https://twitter.com/IrrationalLabs/status/1357033901311451140

Anderson, Ian, and Wendy Wood. ‘Habits and the Electronic Herd: The Psychology behind Social Media’s Successes and Failures’. PsyArXiv, 23 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p2yb7.

Tim Blais (2021, January 17). @acapellascience: Vaccine wellerman let’s gooooo #seashantytok https://t.co/JUv0l82cf3 [Tweet]. https://twitter.com/acapellascience/status/1350782855564111875?s=20

A synopsis of some of what Twitter has been doing wrong, opportunities squandered, and what it could be doing. Reasonable analysis of what some new competitors are doing to generate value in tangential spaces.

A TikTok executive admitted that the video-sharing app censored content likely to anger China in the past, but insisted that is no longer the case.

Mike Caulfield on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://twitter.com/holden/status/1308205813475897344

Nathan Allebach on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://twitter.com/nathanallebach/status/1308154518702620678

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So does this mean that TikTok is opensource or are they listing open source softwares used in this project.