There’s a lot of criticism on WhatsApp and Instagram. The most interesting are:
- WhatsApp is used by conservative political parties (notably Mohdi in India) to promote non-representative, outrageous stories. Those spread in group chats, away from fact-checking. Reducing group maximum size should help slow down and allow media to counter-message before the message spreads too far.
- Instagram is promoting a superficial, edited, material lifestyle. There’s good pushback from the company like reducing the visibility of Likes.
I don’t think that either of those examples contradicts the general trend of issues with context collapse.
danah boyd on MySpace vs. Facebook users, there were two main ones in 2007 [1] and 2010 [2].
Thank you, yes I had heard both of those lines of criticism, I think that the solution of limiting group size on Whatsapp is going to be effective but I'm more sceptical about hiding the number of likes on IG.
Thanks for the Danah Boyd links, the one I remember is the one from 2007, it's still an interesting read in my opinion!
- WhatsApp is used by conservative political parties (notably Mohdi in India) to promote non-representative, outrageous stories. Those spread in group chats, away from fact-checking. Reducing group maximum size should help slow down and allow media to counter-message before the message spreads too far.
- Instagram is promoting a superficial, edited, material lifestyle. There’s good pushback from the company like reducing the visibility of Likes.
I don’t think that either of those examples contradicts the general trend of issues with context collapse.
danah boyd on MySpace vs. Facebook users, there were two main ones in 2007 [1] and 2010 [2].
[1] http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html [2] http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/07/21/myspace...