When I was in college some people were really into “intentional media consumption” the idea being that if you should consume media, you should give it your undivided attention or not bother with it at all. At the time, I found this idea annoying and a little pretentious. They claimed things like reality TV and 24 hour news wouldn’t be popular if people only did this.
AI content is making me want to revisit the idea. Maybe do a personal experiment.
What happens if you pay attention?
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2024-12-07 arrakeen_urbanite ┃ edited
@futurebird I didn’t know there was a name for it. “Intentional” is my default mode. I cannot stand when we’re supposedly watching something together in my house and one kid can’t/won’t stop […]
@futurebird "intentional media consumption" ... annoying and pretentious? Gosh; it's my default mode! I never gave it a second thought, to be honest.
I suppose if I proselytized about it, that […]
@futurebird It's the quality of the attention paid that matters
@futurebird Ive even been trying to do this with youtube videos, I look at the timestamp and think to myself is this topic/concept worth X minutes, would I be watching this if I wasn't utterly […]
@futurebird I HAVE TO consume media this way, if I watch something, I WATCH it. (Music is a sort-of exception.)
2024-12-04 paninid ┃ edited ┃ 1#️
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In the era of mass synthetic media, reading closely is political and #punk AF
@futurebird As a journalist, I do it for coping with the information overflow. I watch/read news only at fixed times. Here, I sorted journalists/media in a list, silenced in my timeline - plus […]
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That's how I do it, never thought about it in that way though. But I never have something on as background, I am always actively choosing to watch or listen to something […]
This morning I put on xckd’s new video about shooting the moon with lasers as I got dressed and brushed my teeth. xckd isn’t just a “source of content” to me, Randall Monroe is a person I’ve […]
@futurebird I also think the other side of it, what might be called critical ignoring, has potential. There's a huge amount of media being made and circulated vehemently, and being intentional […]
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