Social media users actively produce images rather than passively consuming them

Evidence

My use of the term speculative technologies, then, intends to account for the dramatic growth of commodified digital, algorithmic, and computational technologies that has taken place throughout the first two decades of the twenty-­first century, most notably technologies that feed on images. … One important implication of this perspective is that I am interested in a more agentic account of speculative technologies, such that users are not passive consumers (or interpreters) of images but active participants in their production and circulation as a means of connection. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 272

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the book’s core term ‘speculative technologies’ and the agentic view of users that the whole argument rests on.
• XREF: connects to: People act largely on mediated images rather than direct experience; Social media makes users unwaged image managers and avatars. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 70; Instagram users crafted idealized visual narratives with the deliberate intent of seizing attention — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1045 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Social media makes users unwaged image managers and avatars. #expands (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 70
• Instagram users crafted idealized visual narratives with the deliberate intent of seizing attention #exemplifies (0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1045
• Social media turned attention capture into mutual self-display at unprecedented scale #expands (0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1062
• People act largely on mediated images rather than direct experience #expands (0.78)
• Speculative technologies are image-feeding digital tools where users actively produce images. #corroborates (0.78) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 174
• Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. #expands (0.78) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1463
• Influencers present divergent glamorized and grim self-images across platforms #exemplifies (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 204
• Social media broadcast disciplined lifestyle routines as status-signaling bragging #exemplifies (0.70) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 315