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Social media can be very useful, but as media theorist and author of Team Human Douglas Rushkoff has argued, with good reason, it can also be antihuman, antisociety, and antisocial, driven by commercial agendas whose priorities don’t align with our own.
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
Hacking Communities with Lais de Oliveira
smashnotes.comZora is built with the goal to deliver value to people, not platforms. All of us create more value online than we realize. To build on the last sentence above—“What’s Instagram without you?”
Rex Woodbury • Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
jeffhuang.comAndré Chaperon
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Facebook, again, is the extreme example here: the service got started with user-generated content and has continually retrenched over the last few years to have more user-generated content and less professionally produced content; every time they have done so, publishers have cried foul over all of the traffic they were losing. Google, meanwhile, d... See more
Ben Thompson • Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches
The ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all
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