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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

The consequences of framing digital humanities tools as easy to use | hc:20283 | Humanities CORE

August 7, 2018 samplereality
Paige Morgan's engagement with Tsing's theory of nonscalability is worth including in my DIG 401 (Hacking, Remixing, and Design) class.
Tagged dig401, digitalhumanities, hacking, 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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