Digital connectivity often produces communion among lonely people

Evidence

So this is Goodbye is a response to the cyberspatial commonplace that, with the net, even the most remote spot can be connected up (and also: that such connection often amounts to a communion of lonely souls). Hence the impression that, if Sinatra’s ‘When No-one Cars’ was an unanswered call from the heartless heart of the Big Apple, then the Junior Boys’ version has been phoned-in down a digital line from the edge of Lake Ontario. (Is it accidental that the term ‘cyberspace’ was invented by a Canadian?) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 494

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the ‘global village’/McLuhan thread seeded earlier in this same book’s reasoning about media-induced isolation. — connects to: Media technologies offer only new forms of loneliness across successive eras — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 493; Social media spaces create an anonymous intimacy that is neither public nor private — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 45; Trivial social media posts create emotional intimacy through ambient awareness — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 562 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Media technologies offer only new forms of loneliness across successive eras #contradicts (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 493
• Trivial social media posts create emotional intimacy through ambient awareness #exemplifies (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 562
• Social media spaces create an anonymous intimacy that is neither public nor private #expands (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 45