- Context collapse refers to the way social media brings together disparate groups like friends, family, and colleagues into the single context of your online presence.
- {1.5a2} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network and removes our agency from our identity performance.
- Additional thoughts:
- the fact that I even know about random sides of TikTok, like “AdoptionTok”, is an example of context collapse. I’m not the intended audience. I actually think TikTok might be making it worse and more pervasive, even if content collapse is the bigger “story”.
- {1.5a2a1a} virality can spread your story while simultaneously taking away your control of the narrative
- need to find the old broderick article that initially led me to context collapsereview
- 2024-09-27 Had this idea a few months ago after reading Carr, Nicholas - 2020 - From context collapse to content collapse: the cozyweb may be a means of context restoration…. Think on that!
- Connect to Poe’s Law.