Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities

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Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities André Ourednik, Jakub Mlynář, Nico Mutzner, Hamed Alavi, 2021, « Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities », in ACM Interactions, Volume 28, Issue 6, November - December 2021 pp. 62–66 Insights: - The urban issues of social mixity, participatory planning, and embodied experience also apply to the realm of social media. - The profit-focused “teleological confinement” of social media platforms makes them into failed cities. - Social media, like cities, could benefit from the foundational ideas of cybernetics.