Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ian Bogost, author and professor at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with Jon about the demise of online social networks. In a recent Atlantic article, “The Age of Social Media Is Ending,” Bogost examines the platforms’ dipping trajectory and argues that people just aren’t meant to talk to each other this much. He joins Offline to elaborate on how Twitter, Instagram and TikTok have sacrificed connection for content, friendship for sponsorship––and why a cultural shift in how we interact with these platforms may be closer than we think.

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0:00.0	The Crooked Sword just launched a bunch of new merch inspired by your favorite Crooked Media
0:03.3	podcast reminding you to unplug, reconnect, and get festive.
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0:10.1	You listen to Podsave America, you volunteer through Votesave America, but maybe what was
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0:26.4	smartphone on it.
0:27.6	A true classic Christmas scene, where the only screen in sight is being burnt to a crisp.
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0:57.5	I'm just as guilty of it.
0:59.8	With my kids and instead I'm looking at Twitter, and for a while, that was off limits.
1:05.0	That was construed as somehow policing contemporary life in a way that was inappropriate and impossible.
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