
In combination, this creates circumstances that are actually not very good for human communication. All our current systems are working together to minimise thoughtfulness and reflection and empathy more broadly. Certain kinds of communication are valued and encouraged, it’s just that those kinds of communicati…
…lar process, alongside seemingly separate institutions like advertising and of course social media. Currently journalism privileges sensationalist framings as it is advertising-based, and so needs to predicate itself on outrage and emotional reactivity. That feeds into social media hyper-reactivity, which is problematised further by algorithms, which floats the most reacted-to stories to the top of trending lists and people’s social media feeds, around and around. Everything is feeding into itself and the major issue is that all of our capitalistic systems are a…