Sam Liebeskind

We have more public information than ever, but what if there is also less transmission of more personal information between people—especially between generations. What is lost if our digital heirlooms become inaccessible to close relatives? What is lost if estates do not donate prominent people's cloud data to university archives?

So right now, it’s like the sparkle and spectacle of the shininess of the internet, it’s started to fade, and we’re really aware in this moment of, you know, trash in the comments and crowds on the timeline and, you know, misinformation graffiti on the walls.

Besides the infinite social media maelstrom1 and the continuously growing commercialization of the web2, we will soon have to deal with an avalanche of AI-generated content3 as well. The corners of the internet cultivated by individuals are important for its vitality and may even become critical to the very survival of a humane online ecosystem.... See more

However, many tools for authoring personal classifiers on so-cial media are designed for users with heightened motivation , such as community moderators [ 12 , 40 ] and high-profile content cre-ators [ 41 ]. In focusing on these users, such tools neglect the usage patterns of general social media users, who spend significant time on social media... See more