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S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya]
Description
If we paraphrase McLuhan, today’s medium is the algorithm: how is this universal mediator shaping us as content creators and consumers? How does it feel to be online amid different polarising forces, when consensus reality has completely broken down? Günseli Yalcinkaya, writer and researcher specialising in youth and internet culture, has been immersing herself in the insane hidden pits of the internet to shed light on central tendencies and viral phenomena – from homogenised beauty standards imposed by filters to psyops, military e-girl influencers and heads of nation states who post memes on X – through which our online world is becoming increasingly both mid and weird.
COLOPHON
Host: Neja Berger
Guest: Günseli Yalcinkaya
Recording and editing: Neja Berger
Music and Audio Mix: Gašper Torkar
Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art
Ljubljana, 2024
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Part of
Tactics&Practice#15: (un)real data – real effects
Curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf in Domagoj Smoljo)
In collaboration with Janez Fakin Janša
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
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