The Endless Doomscroller is interactive digital art installation that promotes reflection on the interface design, rhetoric, psychology, and social architecture of doomscrolling.

Doomscrolling isn’t just a natural reaction to the news of the day—it’s the result of a perfect yet evil marriage between a populace stuck online, social media interfaces designed to game and hold our attention, and the realities of an existential global crisis…. As an alternative interface, The Endless Doomscroller acts as a lens on our software-enabled collective descent into despair. By distilling the news and social media sites down to their barest most generalized messages and interface conventions, The Endless Doomscroller shows us the mechanism that’s behind our scroll-induced anxiety: interfaces—and corporations—that always want more. More doom (bad news headlines) compels more engagement (via continued liking/sharing/posting) which produces more personal data, thus making possible ever more profit.

Visit The Endless Doomscroller at https://endlessdoomscroller.com/

Learn more about ben grosser’s work at https://bengrosser.com/projects/endless-doomscroller/