
#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

A few days after his murder, an Egyptian Google employee based in the United Arab Emirates, Wael Ghonim, set up a Facebook page called We Are All Khaled Said. The page, which exposed and protested police violence, attracted almost half a million followers, then became the key source of information about protests in Tunisia, which ultimately drove E
... See moreEthan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Researchers have found instead that the distribution of attention remains highly unequal across a wide range of digital contexts, ensuring the hypervisibility of a few and the invisibility or near-invisibility of the great majority. The winner-take-all (or winner-take-most) logic, sustained in part by algorithms that ratify and reinforce what is a
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Retooling for design justice means developing new approaches to key design methods like A/B tests, benchmarks, user testing, and validation.