Algorithms and brain chemistry keep us stuck in loops until we get saturated with digital garbage
There is a long-brewing malaise that has accelerated sharply since 2024. Scholars call it media fatigue, information overload, or data smog. We are increasingly repelled by the miasma of recycled digital sludge swirling around us. That is the good news – sort of. The bad news is that many cannot see a way out. We cannot “think outside the box” because the box has become us.
Media fatigue and news avoidance
Media fatigue predates the internet and is the result of psychological exhaustion from relentless streams of news, posts, and alerts. The web…
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