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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:29:01 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Dr. Johnathan Flowers
   are you talking about how it's surveillance capitalists that control (proprietary) social media that cause these social illnesses misattributed to social media or to their algorithms? or are you rejecting the notion that they shape and influence human behavior through algorithmic controls? your description doesn't make that clear. on purpose, I suppose, but I'm curious ;-)
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     Dr. Johnathan Flowers (shengokai@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 13:29:03 JST Dr. Johnathan Flowers

     Next semester, I get to teach Philosophy of Technology, and I have only one objective: teach students that "social media" does not "cause" anything.

     Yes, you heard that right, I'm going to teach them that social media does not have agency, but is instead given agency through how users use the platform and interact with one another on the platforms. Hopefully, this will cut down on the "social media causes..." or "due to social media" takes.