Attended presentation in POP panel, online spaces as contemporary cultural playgrounds
Method: Netnography + discourse analysis + in-depth interviews
Research goal: understanding how and why people switch to deepseek fortune telling from traditional fortune telling.
Findings:
- essence and feature of deepseek
- real time response
- interactive logic
- data-driven personalized output
- reconstruction mechanisms
- visualization of truth production
- interactive ritual construction
- cognitive closed-loop manufacturing
- disenchantment and reenchantment
- mysticism dependance + technological rationality -> cyber fortunetelling
- activation pathways
- emotional comfort
- satisfying curiosity
technological empowerment and cognitive deprivation are two sides of the same coin
- cognitive alienation
- cultural alienation
- existential alienation
are the fundamental alienations in the digital age, they give the illusion of certainty and we try to find certainty through technology
Discussion