An academic examination of the visual culture of Mark Zuckerberg
Using the same system used by Facebook itself (Linguistic Inquiry Word Count) it let users decide how they would “like to feel” on the platform using a interface to encode their personal emotional “status”, using basic sliders to increase or decrease their level of being “positive”, “emotional”, “aggressive” and “open”.
« […] Taiwanese use the function ‘like’ on Facebook much more frequently compared to UK Facebook users. »
« Pour les primates les plus évolués comme les chimpanzés, la course aux « amis » est essentielle, surtout pour ceux qui veulent devenir chef. Plus on compte d’amis, de soutiens, plus on a de chances d’accéder au pouvoir. C’est la règle, un primate seul, ne peut pas prendre le pouvoir. Donc le chimpanzé doit en permanence se comporter de manière à conquérir des voix.
Tous les moyens sont bons, séduction, coup de main en cas de difficulté, voire intimidation parfois… »
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« Many people do not understand that the News Feed does not give you an unfiltered view of what your Facebook friends are posting. The News Feed is engineered to present content that reinforces your continued use of Facebook. Is this a problem? Facebook might argue that it is learning about and responding to your preferences about what you want to see. But you could also say that the operation of the News Feed resembles how casinos manage the odds of slot machines so that you will keep on feeding them coins. »