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Videos encode way more information than a snippet of text. If anything, social media is moving the opposite way, where people are requiring more stimulation an
by RandallBrown 7y ago
Videos encode way more information than a snippet of text.
If anything, social media is moving the opposite way, where people are requiring more stimulation and information.
- thawaway1837 7y agoI think it’s somewhere in between. More stimulation but less information.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoMore information, at least in the information-theory sense, but much less knowledge. I.e. videos are much less efficient than text, or even static pictures. Take a second of the most insightful video you can find, and in the same space, you could easily cram an entire textbook on the same topic, complete with high-resolution images.
- asdff 7y agoJust pulling a transcript of a given video, timing your reading, and comparing it to the length of the video would make this evident. And that's if the information delivery is perfectly optimized, which in most cases it's not. Compare 1hr of CNN to a 1hr college political science lecture, for example.
- stjohnswarts 7y agodepends on the image and the text. teens dumping goo on their brother's head and then running away are essentially useless compared to a wiki paragraph on the holocaust.
- randompi 7y ago> people are requiring more stimulation and information Perhaps I'm old, but TikTok failed to get me back over and over again.