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How Fair Is Zoom Justice?

August 19, 2020 samplereality
The same audio processing features in Zoom that eliminate echoes and background noise might also be eliminating high and low frequency audio cues that foster empathy between people.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

May 19, 2020 samplereality
This piece by @itstheshadsy is going onto my Intro to a Digital Studies syllabus. It’s a doubleheader of media archaeology and simulation studies.
Tagged DIG101, links, SimCity, simulation, syllabus

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue

April 23, 2020 samplereality
"We are paying attention to ourselves in an odd way"—yes! This idea from @lmsacasas is something I haven't been able to put my finger on until now about teaching through video.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 samplereality
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus, Zoom

Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People

October 23, 2019 samplereality
A counter to the "red pill" theory of YouTube radicalization
Tagged DIG101, links, radicalization, syllabus, YouTube

Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People

October 23, 2019 samplereality
A counter to the "red pill" theory of YouTube radicalization
Tagged DIG101, links, radicalization, syllabus, YouTube

Verge exposé on the horrific working lives of Facebook content moderator

June 23, 2019 samplereality
“Facebook needs to shut down” says one content moderator.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Verge exposé on the horrific working lives of Facebook content moderator

June 23, 2019 samplereality
“Facebook needs to shut down” says one content moderator.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

AI Ethics: Seven Traps

March 30, 2019 samplereality
The traps that discussions about AI ethics fall into. Especially appreciate "the rule of law" trap, wherein we assume laws about AI will inherently be ethical.
Tagged algorithms, DIG101, ethics, links, syllabus

AI Ethics: Seven Traps

March 30, 2019 samplereality
The traps that discussions about AI ethics fall into. Especially appreciate "the rule of law" trap, wherein we assume laws about AI will inherently be ethical.
Tagged algorithms, DIG101, ethics, links, syllabus

The Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification

February 3, 2019 samplereality
Terrific/terrifying post by Mike Caulfield showing that the same principles that underwrote the Fyre Festival apply to disinformation and conspiracy theories
Tagged DIG101, disinformation, links, syllabus

The Fyre Festival and the Trumpet of Amplification

February 2, 2019 samplereality
Terrific/terrifying post by Mike Caulfield showing that the same principles that underwrote the Fyre Festival apply to disinformation and conspiracy theories
Tagged DIG101, disinformation, links, syllabus

“Blackfishing” on Instagram

December 3, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to future syllabuses, to be paired with Lauren Michele Jackson's digital blackface article in Teen Vogue.
Tagged DIG101, DIG340, gender, links, race, syllabus

“Blackfishing” on Instagram

December 3, 2018 samplereality
Adding this to future syllabuses, to be paired with Lauren Michele Jackson's digital blackface article in Teen Vogue.
Tagged DIG101, DIG340, gender, links, race, syllabus

Walmart’s Patent for a Biometric-Enhanced Cart

October 9, 2018 samplereality
Walmart just patented a procedure for capturing customer health data via shopping cart handles. No way this data could be misused, no-sir.
Tagged data, DIG101, links, surveillance

Walmart’s Patent for a Biometric-Enhanced Cart

October 9, 2018 samplereality
Walmart just patented a procedure for capturing customer health data via shopping cart handles. No way this data could be misused, no-sir.
Tagged data, DIG101, links, surveillance

Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls

September 25, 2018 samplereality
Revisiting this 2017 article after reading about Kathleen Hall Jamieson's new "Cyberwar" book.
Tagged DIG101, links, Russia, trolls

Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls

September 25, 2018 samplereality
Revisiting this 2017 article after reading about Kathleen Hall Jamieson's new "Cyberwar" book.
Tagged DIG101, links, Russia, trolls

Amazon Alexa Will Take Over Your Home – The Atlantic

September 22, 2018 samplereality
Will probably add this to my DIG 101 syllabus. And it would pair well with Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Tagged Alexa, DIG101, links, syllabus

Amazon Alexa Will Take Over Your Home – The Atlantic

September 22, 2018 samplereality
Will probably add this to my DIG 101 syllabus. And it would pair well with Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Tagged Alexa, DIG101, links, syllabus

GIFs as Disinformation Remedy (aka The GIF Curriculum)

September 16, 2018 samplereality
Explainer GIFs for link-averse media consumers…Perfect for my DIG 101, where we’re discussing animated GIFs next week and Internet conspiracies a few weeks later.
Tagged DIG101, GIFs, links, media_literacy, syllabus

GIFs as Disinformation Remedy (aka The GIF Curriculum)

September 16, 2018 samplereality
Explainer GIFs for link-averse media consumers…Perfect for my DIG 101, where we’re discussing animated GIFs next week and Internet conspiracies a few weeks later.
Tagged DIG101, GIFs, links, media_literacy, syllabus

THE MEANING OF COLORS by Molleindustria

September 13, 2018 samplereality
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
Tagged conspiracies, DIG101, links, syllabus

THE MEANING OF COLORS by Molleindustria

September 13, 2018 samplereality
An MS Painterly send-up of conspiracy culture
Tagged conspiracies, DIG101, links, syllabus

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility

August 30, 2018 samplereality
We touched upon Lisa Park’s critique of the hypervisibility/weird invisibility of antenna trees yesterday in DIG 101. Wish we could have spent more time on it.
Tagged DIG101, infrastructure, links, syllabus

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility

August 30, 2018 samplereality
We touched upon Lisa Park’s critique of the hypervisibility/weird invisibility of antenna trees yesterday in DIG 101. Wish we could have spent more time on it.
Tagged DIG101, infrastructure, links, syllabus

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

August 23, 2018 samplereality
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Tagged AI, DIG101, links, syllabus

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

August 23, 2018 samplereality
Just discovered this great AI primer from Liz Daly. Perfect for the syllabus.
Tagged AI, DIG101, links, syllabus

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

August 21, 2018 samplereality
Key quote: “It is unclear what other criteria Facebook measures to determine a user’s score, whether all users have a score, and in what ways they’re used.”
Tagged DIG101, facebook, links, syllabus

Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one

August 21, 2018 samplereality
Key quote: “It is unclear what other criteria Facebook measures to determine a user’s score, whether all users have a score, and in what ways they’re used.”
Tagged DIG101, facebook, links, syllabus

twitter.com

August 20, 2018 samplereality
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

twitter.com

August 20, 2018 samplereality
Gotta pull this out whenever we talk about infrastructure in class.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Why Reddit’s face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia

August 10, 2018 samplereality
There are a lot of deep fake articles out there, but I think this is the one I'll use in Intro to Digital Studies this year.
Tagged conspiracy, deepfake, DIG101, links, syllabus, truth

Why Reddit’s face-swapping celebrity porn craze is a harbinger of dystopia

August 10, 2018 samplereality
There are a lot of deep fake articles out there, but I think this is the one I'll use in Intro to Digital Studies this year.
Tagged conspiracy, deepfake, DIG101, links, syllabus, truth

Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center

August 9, 2018 samplereality
You can easily apply Holt and Vonderau’s critique of the discourse around data centers in “Where the Internet Lives” to Microsoft’s discourse about its undersea data center.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center

August 9, 2018 samplereality
You can easily apply Holt and Vonderau’s critique of the discourse around data centers in “Where the Internet Lives” to Microsoft’s discourse about its undersea data center.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Tagged DIG101, links, surveillance, syllabus

PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
Tagged DIG101, links, surveillance, syllabus

Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web | The New Yorker

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web | The New Yorker

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Dark Content is a video series on the dark web about people who perform commercial content moderation on the open web.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

Who are QAnon supporters? The QAnon subreddit, analyzed with data. – Vox

August 8, 2018 samplereality
Excellent digital forensics work on QAnon. Surprise! Most QAnon posters also post on videogames and Men’s Rights.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

What HBR Gets Wrong About Algorithms and Bias · fast.ai

August 7, 2018 samplereality
“algorithms can often exacerbate underlying societal problems”
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

How journalists should not cover an online conspiracy theory | Opinion | The Guardian

August 7, 2018 samplereality
Another great piece by Whitney Phillips, one of the best thinkers about toxic media. A critique of they way the news has covered QAnon conspiracists.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

This is why Alex Jones has been able to get away with exploiting social media – The Washington Post

August 6, 2018August 22, 2018 samplereality
Worth including on my DIG 101 syllabus, where I will have a whole section on conspiracies.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

Unintended Consequences to Google Context Cards on Conspiracy Videos?

August 2, 2018August 22, 2018 samplereality
A good look at how affordances of platforms could enable a kind of crackpot hermeneutics.
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus

Yelp, The Red Hen, And How All Tech Platforms Are Now Pawns In The Culture War

June 26, 2018 samplereality
A Buzzfeed piece on the way fringe political groups hijack social media platforms.
Tagged DIG101, links, syllabus

The Oxygen of Amplification | Data & Society

May 23, 2018 samplereality
Fantastic report from Data & Society on the ways the media inadvertently amplifies the messaging of hate groups
Tagged conspiracy, DIG101, links, syllabus
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