All about social networks
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All about social networks
The vast interconnection enabled by digital platforms has ended up creating more of a sense of sameness than diversity. Users are subtly guided toward the same subsets of topics, urged on by recommendations that are designed not to serve their interests but to create profitable attention fodder to sell to advertisers. Instagram doesn’t care that... See more
Welcome to Filterworld｜Dirt
How Social Media Affordances Foster Intergroup Contact (academic paper) - Georg Voronin
May The Feed Be With You: how algorithmic feeds create the best content experience for users
Eric Fengefeng.medium.comWe have begun working with experts to integrate a technology known as Verifiable Credentials as a shared infrastructure layer, using the same technology that has been adopted by the European Union through their eID framework. This can unleash innovation potential by enabling new solutions to verify important attributes and improve trust, including... See more
Digital Public Goods
The digital sphere is artificially built and those who operate it get to set its rules in ways that are enforced in code, which is to say that are enforced as the laws of the system itself. That is how structural power is established. Many parts of the digital landscape are presented on the surface as consumer goods (social, search) or as markets... See more