#digital authenticity

[theblindmachine]

### Navigating the Social Media Algorithm: A Content Creator’s Dilemma In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, the unseen hand of algorithms governs what content is seen and celebrated. Platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter maintain a tight grip on visibility, often leaving creators frustrated and bewildered. Ironically, while I strive for engaging content, my recent video has succumbing to the age-old issues of visibility, and, rather embarrassingly, it suffers from poor SEO. Let’s address the elephant in the room: my camera's auto-focus issues. As someone passionate about creating visually appealing content, I was genuinely disheartened by all the distractions caused by my camera while filming. Despite my best efforts to edit around these technical shortcomings, it’s clear that I still have a steep learning curve ahead of me. My camera performs smoothly in live streams, but when it comes to recorded content, it appears I have some work to do! The video delves deep into the nuances of social media dynamics, focusing specifically on YouTube, TikTok, and others. It's fascinating to observe the current trend of long videos on YouTube, a format that seems to enjoy newfound popularity. Still, it begs the question: will this trend endure, especially as YouTube positions itself against TikTok’s dominance in short-form content? The world of content creation is rife with challenges, not the least of which is the risk of burnout. Creators often find themselves navigating a maze of compromises, superstitions, and, let’s be honest, the perplexing world of algospeak. The algorithm has its merits—it’s a double-edged sword that allows our content to be discovered—but I can’t help but feel a sense of frustration at how much time and energy I must devote to appeasing it. While I recognize the algorithm as a necessary tool for visibility, I often wonder: why must it dictate the art of content creation? It can be exhausting to mold my creative process to fit an ambiguous set of rules controlled by ever-shifting parameters. More often than not, I long for the freedom to dedicate my energy to research and crafting quality videos rather than conforming to an algorithm that feels inherently flawed. Yet here I am, having chosen this path as a content creator. In many ways, it feel like I’m the fool in this narrative. As I navigate this intricate dance with the algorithm, I invite you to join me on this journey. If you resonate with the struggles of balancing creativity and algorithmic demands, consider supporting my work on Patreon at [https://ift.tt/n1fDGqA](https://ift.tt/n1fDGqA). You can also explore all of my social media accounts on my linktr.ee at [https://ift.tt/RH1QXIx](https://ift.tt/RH1QXIx). Let’s keep the conversation going, embracing both the challenges and the triumphs of creating in an algorithm-driven world. After all, we're all in this together!

[artsandai]

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[telescopicsemi-integratcu]

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[andrewturnbull]

Using dynamic enhancements & passive interactivity to create authentic digital experiences

Since the death of Flash, the digital industry has got much better at building websites that don’t suck. This has been a positive development in terms of usability, but the sites we create have lost a good deal of personality as well.

Thankfully, a trend toward dynamic enhancement appears to be underway — and with this movement, a renewed desire amongst designers to bring life and rich storytelling to presentation of content on the screen.

The resulting experiments in motion design and passive interactivity have expanded the digital toolset to include many new tools, such as:

parallaxing: using the simple act of scrolling to give the page depth

animations: items that spring to life when a specific event is triggered.

inline video: embedded dynamic content used in place of static photography

interactive demonstrations: using input to create context

Becoming authentically digital

Too often, we’re satisfied building static online experiences akin to sophisticated brochures. We don't take full advantage of the screen.

Check out some of the pages below to see how some simple dynamic enhancements and/or passive interactivity can dramatically change the experience. Although they are only simple examples, these whimsical pieces of interactivity are true to the dynamic capabilities of the display.

iPad Smart Cover: simple product demonstration

Google Chromecast: product education and demonstration

Lego: a product feature area that brings a toy to life

Nissan LEAF®: running footage, airflow demonstration, light-up dashboard, etc.

Dropbox - a demonstration more powerful than words

Apple Mac Pro - sophisticated reveal to complement the technical walkthrough

SpaceX Dragon - cross-sections of the different modules that make up the spacecraft.

In addition to this small collection, I can think of no more powerful example than the Pullitzer winning story from the New York Times' John Branch: Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, an online destination/experience/story that uses rich digital media to recount the events of the Tunnel Creek avalanche.

The digital-meets-journalism team manipulated the pixels of the page with expert craftsmanship, bringing the story to life with real-time simulations, scenic flyovers, and descriptive presentations.

The evolution of online storytelling

Dynamic enhancements engage readers in a way that static content cannot. They help to bring some quirky personality back to the web. And at their best, they bring the page to life in a way that static images cannot, to engage readers more fully in a digital experience.

We need to push ourselves to do more of this, and to do it right, so we can advance our craft, and to serve our users better. Let's bring dynamism and personality back to the web.

Recommended Reading

Augmented Paper by Matt Gemmel

Authentic Design by Smashing Magazine

The Authentically Digital Interface by Peter Petrovski

Redesigning the Windows Logo by Sam Moreau

How We Made Snow Fall a Q&A with the NYT team

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When, in 1951, Theodor Adorno wrote of the 'total interconnectedness of the Culture Industry' (1996: 206), he was referring to the manner in which elements of artistic culture, in his case film, related to the everyday practices of culture - the 'meanings people construct and share' (Lewis, 2002: 3). His words, however, seem equally applicable to another trend in the dissemination of cultural capital; that of remediation, and its composite parts, immediacy and hypermediacy, especially in relation to its implications in context of the cultural practices associated with any given medium. Despite the apparent advantages of remediation, with regards to the ease with which it allows many to access previously unreachable media, it neglects to take into account these cultural practices, whatever they may be, replacing them instead with the convenience and reliability of technological reproduction. Thus, rather than operating as an artistic statement in its own right, it can be argued that a remediated product must instead function first and foremost as part of the logic of late capitalism.

An apt example of this cultural trend, particularly in light of Adorno's own views on new technologies and their relation with his concepts of culture and art, is presented by the 2009 iPhone application Hipstamatic, and its ability to take photographs using the phone's own digital camera, but digitally alter them to replicate the aesthetics of obsolete or obscure technology through a user interface that visually bases itself on the technology it is aiming to replicate. In addition to this, the app provides the user with the option to upload photographs to various social networks, and purchase prints from an online store.

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Hipstamatic in Action

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As can be seen, Hipstamatic offers an almost complete view of how immediacy and hypermediacy combine to provide a sense of remediation. Bolter and Grusin argue that immediacy involves 'experience without mediation' (2000: 22-23), or, in other words, an experience in which the viewer or consumer is unaware of the medium. This is present in Hipstamatic's faithful renditions of photographs that, despite being taken digitally, have the appearance of older productions, perhaps taken with a lomograph or polaroid. When printed out, or viewed on a screen of high enough quality, the product is, aesthetically, essentially identical to one taken with technology decades old. The digital medium is forgotten in exchange for an analogue experience; as the product's own tagline tells us, 'Digital Photography never looked so Analog' (sic).

Hypermediacy, on the other hand, functions in a contradictory manner. Rather than hide the medium, it instead emphasizes it, bringing the user 'repeatedly . . . back into contact with the interface' (Bolter and Grusin, 2000: 33). Instead of the homogeneity of immediacy, hypermediacy, in the words of William J. Mitchell, 'privileges fragmentation, indeterminancy and heterogeneity' (Bolter and Grusin, 2000:31). This can also be seen within the Hipstamatic application, with its numerous links to social networking sites and online stores, as well as the app itself functioning within the iPhone's own OS, perhaps the latest advance in hypermediacy's obsession with windowed, heterogeneous space.

Brining these concepts together provides the basic logic of remediation: 'the representation of one medium within another' (Bolter and Grusin, 2000: 45). The Hipstamatic combines the immediacy of aesthetic reproduction with the hypermediacy of its own function within the digital mediascape, ostensibly in order to facilitate the dissemination of various media within one larger medium. However, once it is analysed not only as an element of digital technology centred on communication, but also as an element of digital technology that results in artistic expression, it instead only highlights the distinction between a remediated production and the authentic artefact itself.

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In order to examine Hipstamatic not simply as a medium devoid of ideology, but as an artistic tool, and its subsequent political implications, the works of three theorists, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, are particularly pertinent. In his work on the art of photography Camera Lucida, Barthes investigates the various connotations associated with the medium, presenting an argument that a photograph's power comes from the system of values that the viewer places around it; thus he is 'unable to believe in lifelike photographs' (2000: 20) in the sense that they do not exist merely as physical images or representations.

Rather, for Barthes, a photograph is divided into two distinct areas, the studium and the punctum, with the former representing the cultural, linguistic and political associations of a photograph, such as context, lighting and frame, and the latter instead denoting the 'prick' that one feels when viewing images that have personal significance removed from cultural influence - Barthes' book is essentially a eulogy for his mother, for he perceives the punctum in photographs of her where others would merely experience the studium. It is this latter area of photography that Hipstamatic is able to replicate in its remediated form, for the punctum is entirely reliant on personal reaction, not on the technical and cultural specifications of the image itself.

However, given the studium represents 'application to a thing' and is participated in 'culturally' (2000: 26), and is therefore intimately linked to the processes surrounding photography itself, surely the aesthetic reproduction provided by Hipstamatic lacks the ability to provide the viewer with this sense of cultural recognition, for it bypasses the very processes that allow it broader appeal. Rather than require the photographer to take into account the lighting of his shot, it is instead digitally altered once the photograph is taken; replacing the time and timing needed to use older cameras, Hipstamatic photos are never more than a second away; the pressure to make the one shot count with mind to conserving film; countless can be taken and one selected; hours of darkroom work developing and preserving image is superseded by the ability to view before printing, and to then produce exact physical copies of the digital image. The authenticity of photography, rooted in 'the principle of adventure' that surrounds its practices (Barthes, 2000: 19), is sacrificed for the ease and emptiness of remediated reproduction.