SELECTED TECHNOLOGY CRITICISM

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at All Tech Is Human, Siegel Endowment

My Bad VR Trip, The Verge

Metaverse Trends Report, Future Today Institute

Responsible and Ethical Technology Strategy, Forrester

Now is not the time to pull back on responsible and ethical tech efforts, Forrester

Forget quiet quitting—tech whistleblowers go out with a bang, Forrester

Technology is not neutral, Forrester

Managing Technology’s impact on society will require a responsible and ethical tech organization, Forrester

Return of the RSS Reader, NiemanLab

Google and other Big Tech firms continue to clamp down on pushback within workforce, Business Insider

Microsoft to remove employee names from Productivity Score amid surveillance backlash, Business Insider

China’s proposed antitrust guidelines aim to curb runaway growth of its own Big Tech darlings, Alibaba, Ant Group, and Tencent, Business Insider

Industry efforts aren’t about to disrupt tech’s ethics problem, Berkman Klein Center

Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters, NiemanLab

Russia’s Facebook ads show how Internet microtargeting can be weaponized, The Washington Post

On Algorithmic Time, Construct, The Working Capitol

What the UK can learn from Singapore's smart city, Wired UK

We Need to Tell Better Stories About Our AI Future, Motherboard

There is No Neutral Interface, NiemanLab

Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism, Columbia Journalism Review

How Virginia Heffernan is reinventing tech criticism, Columbia Journalism Review

Bits of Me, Schirn Mag

Styles and Customs in the 2020s, e-flux 56th Venice biennale

Data is the New “___”, DIS Magazine, The Data Issue

Dada Data and the Internet of Paternalistic Things (and translated into French and on the Radio Berkman podcast)

Living with Data Series, Al Jazeera America

Stepping Down: Rethinking the Fitness Tracker The Atlantic

Data Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About The Atlantic

Data Doppelgängers and the Uncanny Valley of Personalization The Atlantic

What’s Meaningful Transparency for Consumers? AdExchanger

If Customers Knew How You Use Their Data, Would They Call It Creepy? Harvard Business Review

You Are Your Data — And you should demand the right to use it Slate

Living with Data: Personal Data Uses of the Quantified Self Oxford Internet Institute Masters Thesis, OII MSc Thesis Award

I Didn’t Tell Facebook I’m Engaged, So Why Is It Asking About My Fiancé? The Atlantic

 

OTHER WRITING

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, oral history [image]

Astrology is Fake and Oxen Might Be Rats, The Hairpin

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Eternal You
Quartz
Rolling Stone
The Guardian
The New Yorker
The Daily Beast
The Messenger
Financial Times
NPR All Things Considered
The Atlantic
CNN
New Scientist
Washington Post
Fast Company
Science
Business Insider
Nieman Reports
NOVA
BBC 4’s Digital Human
BBC World Service
AdAge
Forbes
Note to Self Podcast
WNPR Where We Live
Daily Beast
Computerworld
WBUR Open Source
WBUR Radio Boston
Data Informed
Places Journal
The Creative Independent
Together We Rise
Forbes
CIO Dive
Pew Research Center