Tag: platforms

• Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral

  16 October 2019

  Written by Mike Ananny on Nieman Lab.

  “Note that I haven’t asked: “What’s the impact of technology on society?” That’s the wrong question. Platforms are societies of intertwined people and machines. There is no such thing as “online life” versus “real life.” We give massive ground if we pretend that these companies are simply having an “effect” or “impact” on some separate society.”

  Read ‘Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral’ on the Nieman Lab site.

  Tagged with: platforms, community, society.

• Solving problems with naïvety

  7 May 2012

  Last week I was at the wonderful Future Insights Live conference in Las Vegas. Annoyingly as I was speaking twice (that bit wasn’t annoying, it was fun!

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