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also known as Amazing Polly
Kingston, Ontario blogger and independent podcaster Bob holds up as a working amateur media ecologist. Her closing refrain — ditch the smartphone for a "dumb phone" — turns app-refusal into a gesture of media hygiene against surveillance capitalism, which Bob reads as a role model for a population forced, in the COVID moment, to decide which media anti-environment it will inhabit.
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Returns as Bob's model of amateur media ecology — the Kingston blogger whose "ditch your smartphone" sign-off makes her a role model for a public forced to choose which anti-environment to live in
Bob offers Amazing Polly as a live example of amateur media ecology — her "ditch your smartphone" sign-off treating apps as the vector by which surveillance capitalism "gets into you."
"So this interesting blogger named Amazing Polly out of Kingston, Ontario, I enjoy her work, and she ends each podcast, which is 30 to 40 minutes often."