Tag: society
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The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech
Written by Safiya U. Noble on Noema.
“Investments in anti-democratic technologies come at an incredible cost to the public at a time when deeper investments should be made in public health, education, public media and abolitionist approaches in the tech sector.”
Read ‘The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech’ on the Noema site.
Tagged with: Big Tech, public goods, society.
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Panic, Pandemic, and the Body Politic
Written by Laurie Penny on Wired.
“The diseases that are most successful in the coming century will, as always, be the diseases that exploit our major failure modes and popular delusions.
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If you design a world economy that rewards self-interest and makes altruism unaffordable, it’s unsurprising that some people start acting like they’re in the prisoner’s dilemma.”
Read ‘Panic, Pandemic, and the Body Politic’ on the Wired site.
Tagged with: coronavirus, society, panic.
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The biggest myths about the next billion internet users
Written by Payal Arora on Quartz.
“We need to de-exoticize these users if we are going to genuinely have a healthy global digital culture. They need to be humanized, understood, and kept in mind when designing inclusive platforms. The internet is a critical public resource that is meant for all users—and that includes the world’s poor.”
Read ‘The biggest myths about the next billion internet users’ on the Quartz site.
Tagged with: society, poverty, discrimination.
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Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral
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.”