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TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it.
Ik weet zeker dat Facebook weet wanneer ik thuis kom en weinig te doen heb. Dan zit ik veel op Instagram en WhatsApp (waar Facebook eigenaar van is, red.). En dan krijg ik meldingen van welke van die apps dan ook. “Pling!” Zodat ik weer even word afgeleid. Op school krijg ik die meldingen niet. En die apps zijn er ook zo op ingericht dat je zo lang mogelijk blijft scrollen. Er is steeds nog een bericht, je komt nooit aan het eind.’
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives’ example and going cold turkey – and is it even possible for mere mortals?
Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.
DOPAMINE SHOTAnimation short by Kim Taylor is a visually witty take on smartphone addiction:
“This is your brain on social media…
Personal animation 2017. Sound by Redhorse Studio.
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“This is your brain on social media…
Personal animation 2017. Sound by Redhorse Studio.
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There’s the big five you use every day. And then nothing. Why are we stuck in a cycle of sameness?
Social media seems to be taking us into an era with no use for the written word
Our rough guide to minimizing data invasion at the American border.
How social media is being weaponized across the world
Nextdoor’s push to combat racial profiling is latest controversy when tech firms find themselves in scandals at intersection of race, social justice and free speech
Witch hunts and panic among communities are nothing new, but what happens when cyberspace intensifies the frenzy?
Using social media profiles like Facebook voor ESTA and VISA application
Search company’s head of ideas sees short term wins against non-tech-savvy organisation, but says stifling group’s propaganda must not be neglected