Three BIG shifting dynamics:
• Algorithms are dominating.
• AI content generation is breaking the link between platforms and human content creation.
• Public posting is decreasing dramatically, with conversations moving to non-public facing channels.
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Leah McElrath
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met.
But we're still studying social media like it's 2010.
We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up.
osf.io/preprints/so...
preprint w/ Richard Rogers