Metaverso Supernova
The birth (and explosion) of social networks from the spirit of gaming
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6093/2280-4110/11370Keywords:
Metaverse, Gaming, Surveillance capitalism, Social networkAbstract
This essay aims to support the thesis that social networks such as Facebook have come to an end. In the age of surveillance capitalism, online streaming platforms are proving to be much more adept at profiling their users, thus greatly diminishing the power of social networks which, since their inception, have never been a simple means of communication, but rather a powerful means of identification. The end of social networks is, however, a 'thermal' end, a star-like explosion. In this sense, what has been announced as the metaverse is a collapse of social networks to their core, that is, to what the web was before their arrival, characterised by the dominance of gaming and private communications.
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