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Apr 27, 2022

We Don’t Need Corporate Social Media

Elon Musk is just about the last person on earth (or Mars) you’d want in charge of communities, online or otherwise. He shares transphobic and anti-Semitic memes, promotes covid misinformation, has run afoul of the National Labor Relations Board for an anti-union tweet; the SEC even charged him with securities…

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OneZero

·Oct 20, 2020

To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics

These early and overlooked books revealed Facebook was plagued from the start — and are crucial to understanding it now — Hardly a week goes by without another Facebook scandal. Frustration with Facebook and criticism of it — even despair over it and outright hatred of it — seems constant, evergreen. It’s been this way since at least the 2016 election. There are now more journalists investigating the world’s largest social…

Facebook

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To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics
To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics
Facebook

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OneZero

·Feb 19, 2020

AOL, Geocities, and Message Boards: A Brief History of Becoming Human Online

What it meant to grow up as a lurker on the information superhighway — In an excerpt from Lurking, a history of being a user online, Joanne McNeil remembers the profound impact of coming of age in the small communities forged on the early internet. “Information Superhighway” once had a valence of provocative optimism, sort of like “Green New Deal” does today. It was…

Digital Life

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AOL, Geocities, and Message Boards: A Brief History of Becoming Human Online
AOL, Geocities, and Message Boards: A Brief History of Becoming Human Online
Digital Life

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Dec 13, 2018

Scenes from the New York Tech Zine Fair

On December 1st, I joined a crowd of hundreds of artists, activists, writers, and technologists (and people who identify as all four) at the School for Poetic Computation for the New York Tech Zine Fair. It was a day-long event and the first of its kind. Entering the classroom nearest…

Comics

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Scenes from the New York Tech Zine Fair
Scenes from the New York Tech Zine Fair
Comics

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Oct 27, 2017

Say It to My Face

Discussing the implications of face recognition technology with artist and researcher Adam Harvey — Artist and researcher Adam Harvey launched a project known as CV Dazzle in 2010. It involved a series of abstract hairstyles and jagged makeup patterns designed to spoof facial-recognition surveillance. It camouflaged him to a camera, yet it made him even more visible to other people on the street, revealing…

Biometrics

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Say It to My Face
Say It to My Face
Biometrics

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Sep 19, 2017

Teaching EQ to AI

Navigating data, unconscious bias, and our own human feelings while developing emotion recognition technology — Most of us have at one point felt anger toward an automated system. An incoherent chatbot. A GPS automated voice that misdirects. A self-checkout scale that calibrates the weight of your purse instead of a bunch of bananas. Generally, we expect that anger to go unnoticed by the machine. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Teaching EQ to AI
Teaching EQ to AI
Artificial Intelligence

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Sep 8, 2017

Telepathy Could Be Real. Are We Ready?

Mary Lou Jepsen is inventing the future of seeing inside your head. — Mary Lou Jepsen was an executive at Oculus, led “moonshots” at Google, founded the low-power computer display company Pixel Qi, and co-founded One Laptop Per Child. But the company she launched last year, Openwater, is her most ambitious project yet. The plan is to use optoelectronics and LCDs to create…

Artificial Intelligence

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Telepathy Could Be Real. Are We Ready?
Telepathy Could Be Real. Are We Ready?
Artificial Intelligence

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Aug 30, 2017

Privacy in a Virtual World

An Interview with Crystal Nwaneri, explorer of the boundaries between law, intellectual property, and high-tech public policy. — “Where Is the Future?” is a series of interviews with industry leaders considering the potential and complexity of technology on the horizon.

Virtual Reality

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Privacy in a Virtual World
Privacy in a Virtual World
Virtual Reality

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Aug 21, 2017

Machine Learning for Predicting The Unknown

An interview with data scientist, Courtenay Cotton. — “Where Is the Future?” is a series of interviews with industry leaders considering the potential and complexity of technology on the horizon.

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning for Predicting The Unknown
Machine Learning for Predicting The Unknown
Machine Learning

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The Message

·Jul 27, 2015

How I Organized a Series of Six Panels on Technology with Only Women Speaking.

A few weeks ago, I held the sixth and final panel in a series I hosted at Eyebeam called New Topics in Social Computing. The series was an attempt to reset the clock on the discourse around internet and technology in culture. This is a moment of transition and uncertainty…

Women In Tech

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How I Organized a Series of Six Panels on Technology with Only Women Speaking
How I Organized a Series of Six Panels on Technology with Only Women Speaking
Women In Tech

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