Has social media ruined the web?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/31/has-social-media-ruined-the-web
Has the web lost its power to drive social change? This is the conclusion of Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, imprisoned by the regime in 2008 and released and pardoned in 2014.
The rise of smartphones and apps had changed the online world. Blogging and independent websites had been overtaken by social media networks, with the likes* of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram dominating the market.
- "Nearly every social network now treats a link as just the same as it treats any other object – the same as a photo, or a piece of text.
- You’re encouraged to post one single hyperlink and expose it to a quasi-democratic process of liking and plussing and hearting. But links are not objects, they are relations between objects. This objectivisation has stripped hyperlinks of their immense powers"
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