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determinism—interpreting some device as single-handedly steering social outcomes and thereby denying the role of people in shaping their own cultures and power structures.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
But despite the epic nature of the story and the prominent identity of its author, the New York Times decided to downplay—one more time—the story of the Holocaust and placed the story on page twelve.
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
he recruited and paid at least one new minor to appear after he'd flipped for Eichenwald.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
reputation-based “karma.”
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
there are also increasingly explicit shared beliefs, ones having to do with whose lives count most and whose deaths might be “nature” doing its work.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Rabbi Louis Rieser.