The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.| kevinmunger.substack.com
This blog is about two things: (1) the radical changes wrought by modern communication technology; and (2) the inability of the epistemic technologies of the written word to understand point (1).| kevinmunger.substack.com
Reading Expands Our Context Windows| kevinmunger.substack.com
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to ameliorate the worst faults.| kevinmunger.substack.com
or, Seeing like a Smartphone| kevinmunger.substack.com
In a speech in 2019, Duncan Watts discussed his regrets over the course of what is by any accounts an impressive career for a social scientist:| kevinmunger.substack.com
The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:| kevinmunger.substack.com
There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re talking about it now, though, is that the websites are doing things we never thought websites could do.| kevinmunger.substack.com
The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our electoral system.| kevinmunger.substack.com
Note: this is the first of several posts discussing the 2020 Meta Election research partnership and the resulting papers, in advance of a keynote panel at IC2S2 on the topic next Thursday July 18.| kevinmunger.substack.com
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:| kevinmunger.substack.com
As I say in my TED Talk about Vilem Flusser, the most pressing cultural question is: “why are things so weird?” Or as Anna Shechtman describes it:| kevinmunger.substack.com
Taking attention seriously| kevinmunger.substack.com
Audience Theory and Quantitative Aesthetics| kevinmunger.substack.com
The goal of social science cannot be to eliminate humans| kevinmunger.substack.com
Against Cruelty Culture| kevinmunger.substack.com
The Böomerdämmerung Looms| kevinmunger.substack.com
How should we decide how we should use Twitter?| kevinmunger.substack.com
and TikTok is incompatible with human dignity| kevinmunger.substack.com
and the inevitability of intergenerational conflict| kevinmunger.substack.com
This doesn't have anything to do with Wordle...or does it| kevinmunger.substack.com
