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This is what growing up very visibly online is like. It’s hard not to internalize the sense that you’re constantly being watched and thus everything you do demands a defensible explanation.

One very common pitfall for naive implementations of discovery, ranking or status is to inadvertently stop newcomers from “breaking in”.Any social experience will typically have attention or display mechanisms that need to take relative status into account. A naive implementation of a “suggestions” feed or a “top users” might be to rank content bas... See more

Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto

Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which leaves them open to claims of censorship and masks the true costs of misinformation.

Joan Donovan • Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows

The Links x Techno Sapiens guide to teens & screens

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one in which he emerges as less an innocent straight boy corrupted by tech savvy queer predators than as an equally tech savvy, ambitious, sexually flexible, self-interested, and even cynical entrepreneur.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

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On source criticism and media literacy'; on judging others reputations for reliability and diligently protecting ones own. Who do you trust and why? For what kinds of information? On what basis?

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The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all yo

Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

In the 2020 documentary The Social Dilemma, computer scientist Jaron Lanier uses Wikipedia as an example to highlight the craziness of this situation: When you go to a [Wikipedia] page, you’re seeing the same thing as other people. So it’s one of the few things online that we at least hold in common. Now, just imagine for a second that Wikipedia sa