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The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
youtube.comA democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources made available by digital hyperconnectivity could support such a developmentalist cultural politics. But the algorithms that feed us what we like or register what is popular — and thereby performativ... See more
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
“I realized that internet policy-makers and internet artists have similar interests, but different skill sets. Internet artists make work that questions themes of data extraction, surveillance, provenance, identity, and this open display creates a cultural shift that then provides enough momentum for a policy shift. Then once it moves into that ter... See more
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
Many design approaches that are supposedly more inclusive, participatory, and democratic actually serve an extractive function.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Notably, Twitter has low financial and technological barriers to entry.
Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
to propose tools, social practices and collective data custody arrangements that allowed them to “collectively bargain” with their data for cooperation with government and private actors supported by the PDIS-supported program of “data coalitions” to address civic problems.