Another characteristically insightful post from Rob Horning about social media, parasociality, and chat bots. "Friendship doesn’t require friends; it only requires our imagination and some material that it can productively go to work on."
"Apps like Find My have normalized location-sharing, but keeping tabs on someone doesn’t always keep them close."
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.
Perfect timing for this NYT article on contemporary mediums. Just yesterday in DIG 215 we were talking about the Fox sisters and their "spiritual telegraph" to the afterlife.