Discovering the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. …

Shoshana Zuboff explains surveillance capitalism by portraying humans as “free roam material.” We search Google, yes. But Google also searches us, in effort to profit off our usage. Digital footprints of users are tracked by companies who want to use individual’s information. What’s wrong with this? Well, did you tell…

Environmental and Sustainability Studies with a Digital Studies minor. — Growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan introduced the development of a deep appreciation for nature. My passions have always been linked to protecting the environment and learning about sustainable practices, which is why I chose to study this subject in college. I remember a sense of relief when…

“Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google…

A review of the first chapter from Meredith Broussard’s book Artificial Unintelligence — Hello Readers, Meredith says the tech revolution already happened and that it is now mundane… Have we even thought about how this could be? I haven’t. If the tech revolution already happened then why are we seeing even more technology? Technochauvinism is one of the many ideas that Meredith brings to the…