Caitlin Harrington with a thoughtful post about digital, media consumption. Use sparingly. Limit screens before bed, during meals, and running in the background for no reason. Use occasionally. Turn off “autoplay” on YouTube, turn on apps to limit screentime. Limit/abstain use of violent games or content. Use moderately. Monitor usage of age-appropriate ebooks, movies/tv, online…
Paul Ford on the fundamental question on the web…”why wasn’t I consulted?” “Why wasn’t I consulted,” which I abbreviate as WWIC, is the fundamental question of the web. It is the rule from which other rules are derived. Humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and…
Morgan Marieta and David C. Barker, authors of the Inconvenient Facts blog on Psychology Today, share some insight from the research presented in their text, One Nation, Two Realities. The research examines data from five years of national surveys from 2013 to 2017, about ideological and political outlooks of individuals. This post examines the following two…
Mary Madden discussing the privacy and security violations that occur in our increasingly digitized society. This is increasingly true for marginalized and vulnerable populations. The poor experience these two extremes — hypervisibility and invisibility — while often lacking the agency or resources to challenge unfair outcomes. Madden draws on work that focused on privacy perceptions…
Zeynep Tufekci talking about the digital residue we leave behind as we use digital tools and spaces. There is the narrative that “as long as you’re careful online” you’ll be okay. As Tufekci indicates, there is no longer any chance of “opting out” of challenges in these spaces. Because of technological advances and the sheer…
A look at the connections between device use and hormone levels in our bodies. Specifically, Catherine Price is examining connections to dopamine and cortisol. Dopamine is neurotransmitter that is viewed by popular culture and the media as being “the main chemical of pleasure.” But, recent research in pharmacology suggests that dopamine may instead be connected…
The reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica–Facebook scandal has taken down the tech giants for undermining democracy. In a TED Talk in Vancouver, Carole Cadwalladr called out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for their role in helping authoritarians consolidate their power in different countries. Some quotes from the TED talk Facebook, you were on the wrong side…
As part of his Privacy Project newsletter, Charlie Warner talks about the challenges of defining and discussing privacy in current contexts. “Privacy” is an impoverished word — far too small a word to describe what we talk about when we talk about the mining, transmission, storing, buying, selling, use and misuse of our personal information.…
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about privacy that offered up a new direction for the company, one based on encrypted messaging & the interoperability of all of the messaging platforms within Facebook. A shift to move the company toward a future dominated not by public feeds but by private, encrypted messaging. Chris Cox, the Chief Product…
Ian Bogost on how technology platforms police content. Global internet services were designed to work this way, and there might be no escape from their grip. The internet was designed to resist the efforts of any central authority to control its content—even when a few large, wealthy companies control the channels by which most users…
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