tags: #publish links: [[Social media gamification and addictiveness]], [[Art]] created: 2021-08-17 Tue --- # Ben Grosser art and social media critique Ben Grosser, artist and professor of new media at the University of Illinois, has artworks, apps and commentary highlighting social media's obsession with scale and growth, and the psychological consequences of that. e.g. a film of all of Mark Zuckerberg's mentions of growth; an app that removes the gamification and reward features from Facebook or Twitter; etc. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/15/ben-grosser-order-of-magnitude-mark-zuckerberg-film-software-for-less-arebyte