Notes on Loneliness
Internazionale
Notes on Loneliness in the Age of Social Media
Lovink observes that despite 5.2 billion users being online, the Internet doesn’t feel crowded. Paradoxically, social media fosters a semblance of social connection that often manifests as isolation and loneliness.
This brings forth the idea of ‘interpassive’ users—individuals who contribute data while remaining largely passive in their engagement.
And this is interpassivity introduced by Slavoj Žižek.
Here the original article by Geert Lovink, as published in Internazionale.