Point of view: Cogs in the machine

Our love affair with social media may be starting to cool, as witnessed by Twitter's threat to pass users' details to the authorities in the UK superinjunctions debacle, and Adam Curtis's documentary, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.

Point of view: Cogs in the machine

Molly Flatt

We were so young. We were so in love. We had so many plans… but it seems that our heady affair with social media is, if not exactly starting to sour, at least entering a more realistic phase, where hyperbolic assumptions are being questioned and complexities starting to emerge. This is a huge relief for those of us bored to the back teeth by the implication that a communications tool can ‘solve’, ‘save’ or ‘revolutionise’ anything. Those are jobs for people, not platforms, and technology can obstruct as much as it...

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