

Analytical observer and daydreamer. Doctoral student in media and communication at the University of Helsinki. @MsSiren
Therefore no digital literacy programme is ever likely to work unless it produces reflexive critical thinkers, motivated to challenge their own thinking and postionality: people know and care when they are being sold a biased or racist view of history, pseudo-science or when they are being manipulated. As boyd (2018) identifies digital literacy to needs to be about epistemology: how do we know what t…
The anti-human machine is a powerful combination of ‘the social’ (human actors) and ‘the technical’ (the affordances of digital technologies). The anti-human machine is placing demands on democracies to address ideologies and methods that are…
…igital speech but it is difficult to isolate its exponents from the rest of the anti-human machine. Extreme speech is often codified so that group insiders know what is being said but outsiders cannot identify it as illegal. This includes visual codes in memes and the co-opting of well-known brands to produce a whole iconog…