Historian Daniel Boorstin in his book "The Image" coined the term "pseudo-event" to describe the manufactured media landscape that was meant to appear authentic despite being "not spontaneous but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it."
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
Today, many of us choose to live in a form of pseudo-reality governed by algorithmically-enabled individual experiences. Much of what passes for authentic experience today is vicarious and virtual.
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/appassionato/statuses/116038176796387353 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
