Nobody Shares Anymore

Summary

This is a YouTube video page for a video titled ‘Nobody Shares Anymore’ by Mike Rugnetta, part of his ‘Think Twice’ playlist. The video explores the evolution and decline of ‘sharing’ as a social media concept, examining how social media platforms have changed the way people interact and share content online. The video is approximately 18 minutes long and was uploaded on July 27, 2022, with around 13,374 views.

Key points

Quotes

Knowing about things is not enough. We got to act.

Nothing is going to change until it is changed. Nothing is going to get better until it is made better.

My thoughts

Wow, Mike Rugnetta was on the ball --- that video was published 3 years ago, and I feel like I just caught on to this stuff this week! I was aware of it, but hadn’t clicked in a way that felt real or actionable before. But he is right --- without action, nothing changes. And there is a lot to do!

I never noticed how platforms shifted away from “sharing” and towards a stance that says: “we are here, we are where digital life happens. You will be here because we are here.” But it’s definitely consistent with them increasingly dominating everyone’s communications, discovery of arts and culture, news consumption, and curation of a public persona.

Content

In which we chart the birth, life and death of a social media canard.

You can also watch this video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/705511726

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Me: http://patreon.com/mikerugnetta Caveat NYC: http://caveat.nyc/ and https://caveat.nyc/events/ Thank You, Robot: https://twitter.com/thankyourobot

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Papers by Nicholas A John https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444812450684 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221078603

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro 01:12 What Social Media Wants Us to Want 02:22 What Is Social Media For? 03:43 The Emergence of a Keyword 05:48 Sharing Ideology Disc Horse 08:43 The Front Pages of 2022 09:32 The Decline of a Keyword 11:35 What, If Not Sharing? 12:39 Struggle, but also: Struggle 15:11 Touch Grass 16:37 Call Your Mom 17:26 Backmatter

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CC-BY LICENSED ASSETS USED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYhCXehcp8 https://www.vecteezy.com/video/2014059-short-breaking-news-intro

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Written, shot, edited, sound designed by Mike All music is Harris Heller’s Streambeats, unless otherwise noted

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