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{1.2a2} context collapse

topics: [[context]],[[internet]],[[platforms]]

Context collapse refers to the way social media brings together disparate groups like friends, family, and colleagues into the single context of your online presence.
- Brandtzaeg, Petter and Luders, Marika - 2018 - Time Collapse in Social Media:[UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]
{1.2a2a} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network and removes our agency from our identity performance.
Additional thoughts:
- the fact that I even know about random sides of TikTok, like “AdoptionTok”, is an example of context collapse. I’m not the intended audience. I actually think TikTok might be making it worse and more pervasive, even if content collapse is the bigger “story”.
- {1.2a2b1a} virality can spread your story while simultaneously taking away your control of the narrative
- [ ] need to find the old broderick article that initially led me to context collapse
2024-09-27 Had this idea a few months ago after reading Carr, Nicholas - 2020 - From context collapse to content collapse: the cozyweb may be a means of context restoration…. Think on that!
[ ] Connect to Poe’s Law.

created: 2024-01-01-20-20 ✻ modified: 2026-07-25-11-21 ✻ tags:

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