Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
HOW TO HOLD A GOOD MEETING - RUSTY S RULES OF ORDER
Guidelines for conducting effective meetings using structured procedures, including the importance of an agenda, roles of participants, decision-making processes, and simplified rules adapted from Robert's Rules of Order.
iww.orgOne way to understand computer systems in large social settings is as automated bureaucracies. Forget the hype and the jargon, that really is what they are. I know that no one gets excited about bureaucracy (except for social scientists, no kinkshaming) but what kind of bureaucracy runs any given important part of your life (and of society at large... See more
We have allowed today’s students to speed along the information superhighway without so much as a driver’s permit.
“We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies”.
-Walt Disney
But the constant changing of these privacy norms might only work to confuse our subliminal user habits even more. Our brains are increasingly disoriented by the different rules of each platform:
On LinkedIn, people can see if I view their profile.
On Instagram, people can see if I view their stories, but not their profile.
On TikTok, people can see w... See more
On LinkedIn, people can see if I view their profile.
On Instagram, people can see if I view their stories, but not their profile.
On TikTok, people can see w... See more
MY PHONE IS FOR ME, BUT IT IS ALSO FOR YOU — USURPATOR
Facebook Groups also allow moderators to remain anonymous, despite the platform otherwise requiring “real names.” While anonymity is not a panacea for harassment—many harassers in our study used their real names—it makes it possible for public figures to evade responsibility for engaging in hate or harassment.
Hate Thy Neighbor: Online Hate in Local Communities
These are the sorts of ways in which speech moderation online must embrace the political. The main question we must be asking about a speech platform is not what are the standards for moderation but who moderates and what is the moderator’s relationship to the community .
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
WhatsApp initially achieved that global dominance in large part by doing just one thing very well: enabling cheap, private, and reliable messaging on almost any phone, almost anywhere in the world. But in the decade since Meta acquired WhatsApp for an eye-watering $22 billion in 2014, the app has been transformed from a narrowly focused utilitarian... See more