Social media is the first global experiment testing a human hive

Evidence

The youngest members of our societies already experience many of these destructive dynamics in their attachment to social media, the first global experiment in the human hive. I consider the implications of these developments for a second elemental right: the right to sanctuary. The human need for a space of inviolable refuge has persisted in civilized societies from ancient times but is now under attack as surveillance capital creates a world of “no exit” with profound implications for the human future at this new frontier of power. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 72

Categorization

• QUESTION: Track how Zuboff develops the ‘right to sanctuary’ — this is a candidate foundational concept for the surveillance capitalism canon.
• XREF: The human-hive idea of social media connects conceptually to the planned hive of Zamyatin’s ‘We’ and to Butler’s Parable of the Sower’s community-building against exploitative systems. — connects to: Social modeling through media can bypass trial-and-error limits and spread behavior change worldwide; Social media’s herd-intensification may impede individual development at population scale — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1488; Every communication medium depends on shared organic conditions among participants (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Social media’s herd-intensification may impede individual development at population scale #corroborates (0.88) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1488
• Social modeling through media can bypass trial-and-error limits and spread behavior change worldwide #expands (0.82)
• Social media functions as primate-style social grooming, both bonding and competitive #expands (0.78) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1005
• Every communication medium depends on shared organic conditions among participants #expands (0.75)