Real-world birdwatching trains attention that social media content structurally lacks context for

Evidence

IT’S PRETTY INTUITIVE that truly understanding something requires attention to its context. What I want to emphasize here is that the way this process happened for me with birds was spatial and temporal; the relationships and processes I observed were things adjacent in space and time. For me, a sensing being, things like habitat and season helped me make sense of the species I saw, why I was seeing them, what they were doing and why. Surprisingly, it was this experience, and not a study on how Facebook makes us depressed, that helped me put my finger on what bothers me so much about my experience of social media. The information I encounter there lacks context, both spatially and temporally. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 527

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘spatial and temporal context’ framing directly serves the three-redirections argument the reader wants to defend; also anticipates the ADDENDUM trade via attention doctrine.