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SOURCE: Dissent
6/27/2022
Ben Tarnoff on Building an Internet for the People
While the media pays significant attention to the influence of social media platforms, the structure of the internet is dicated by the privatization of the physical architecture of the internet since the 1990s.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
6/9/2022
Meet the New Middleman, Same as the Old Middleman
by Kathryn Judge
The internet's promise to cut out any number of middlemen from the consumer experience has been a failure.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/30/2021
The Internet’s Favorite Catalog of Weird Places Rewrites History
The popular internet site Atlas Obscura has undertaken to rewrite many of its articles to include more diverse perspectives on the unusual places they describe.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/14/2021
To Navigate the Dangers of the Web, You Need Critical Thinking – But Also Critical Ignoring
by Sam Wineburg
"Learning to ignore information is not something taught in school. School teaches to read a text thoroughly and closely before rendering judgment. But on the web, where a witches’ brew of advertisers, lobbyists, conspiracy theorists and foreign governments conspire to hijack attention, critical ignoring is just as important as critical thinking."
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SOURCE: Vice
11/2/2020
The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet's Racist Engine
A look at the people who enabled the creation of a far-right sewer of racism and bigotry on the internet.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/30/2020
The Joke’s on Us
Communications scholar Whitney Phillips argues that the irony-drenched culture of the internet allowed serious white supremacy, nazism and misogyny to flourish unchecked. From the Klan to the Nazis, the far right has benefitted from sowing confusion about what was serious and what was a joke.
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7/12/2020
Marshall McLuhan: The Man Who Predicted the Internet and Warned Us of its Dangers
by Ludovic Rembert
These days, most of Professor McLuhan's "global village" is kept in private and confined spaces: the village plaza is Facebook, a space that is operated for commercial purposes, restricting our discussions and absorbing our private data within our conversations and searches to sell it to advertisers.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/6/2020
The Pandemic Is Not an Excuse to Exploit Writers
by Douglas Preston
Internet Archive’s “National Emergency Library” is meant to benefit consumers during the coronavirus crisis. Authors everywhere are losing.
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SOURCE: Vice
3/25/2020
How Games Marketing Invented Toxic Gamer Culture
How early marketing campaigns for online gaming platforms suggested toxicity isn't a bug, it's a feature.
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SOURCE: NPR
12/9/19
Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups
At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.
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11/5/19
The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”
by Harlan Lebo
The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next?
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10/29/19
The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born
by Harlan Lebo
If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born.
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10/22/19
The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst
by Harlan Lebo
As a cautionary tale and a business school lesson about irrational investor expectations, no modern example proved better than the dot-com bubble.
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10/15/19
The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World
by Harlan Lebo
The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use.
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SOURCE: Time
9/11/19
How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos
by Mike Martin
Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.
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3/10/19
The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths
by Walter G. Moss
How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope.
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SOURCE: The Daily Californian
2/15/19
Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future
Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.
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2/10/19
Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation
by Tom Wheeler
"The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
4-23-18
The Internet is the new Wheel of Fortune
by Niall Ferguson
Social media has democratized politics, but it can kill an individual's reputation in a nanosecond.
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SOURCE: WGBH
1-11-16
One of the Internet’s pioneers says he was inspired by his research into the Homestead Act of 1862
It’s one reason he’s so worried about the Internet now.
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