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Heather Zeiger
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January 18, 2020
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Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance
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Can a Totalitarian State Be an Information Society?

Beijing’s clumsy social media campaigns against democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan have failed but attempts to control local media are ramping up
Heather Zeiger
January 18, 2020

Xi believes that the Western values of a free press, free speech, and separation of powers contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and that China must avoid them so as not to succumb to the same fate. But the Soviet Union fell just before the internet became today’s information superhighway.

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Adam Nieri
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December 7, 2019
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The Feed: A Mind Matters TV Series Review

I started out thinking that the show was just the usual ho-hum tyrant-AI-takes-over flick and it is so good to be wrong!
Adam Nieri
December 7, 2019

Imagine a world where your mind is stored on social media. Now, what happens if someone steals, then abandons it. What will you do?

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Russ White
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December 2, 2019
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Philosophy of Mind, Social Media
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So Many Selfies, So Little Self

The collage of images on social media so often doesn’t add up to a single self
Russ White
December 2, 2019

Consider the way in which the phrase: “That’s your truth— my truth is different,” has expanded in scope. It’s now: “That’s your truth—my truth, right now, and on this social media platform, is different!”

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Beautiful Male Computer Engineer and Scientists Create Neural Network at His Workstation. Office is Full of Displays Showing 3D Representations of Neural Networks.
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 12, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Social Media
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How Algorithms Can Seem Racist

Machines don’t think. They work with piles of “data” from many sources. What could go wrong? Good thing someone asked…
Denyse O'Leary
November 12, 2019

Some of the recent conflicts around algorithms and ethnicity are flubs that social media entrepreneurs will regret. Others may endanger life.

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Heather Zeiger
Date
November 8, 2019
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Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy
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Tiananmen Square 30 Years On: Words Still Have Power

Back then, students fought oppression via the fax. They depended on free media in Hong Kong to tell the world
Heather Zeiger
November 8, 2019

The Chinese government has described the Hong Kong protests as violent riots by extremists. And, as with mainland China’s reports on Tiananmen Square, the abuses by police in Hong Kong have been scrubbed from the Chinese internet, while violence by protesters has been highlighted.

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Mind Matters
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November 8, 2019
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Global Technology, Social Media
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India’s Social Media Content Removal Order Is a Nail in the Coffin of the Internet As We Know it

The High Court of Delhi ordered Facebook, Google, and Twitter to remove content globally if it is considered defamatory locally
Mind Matters
November 8, 2019

In reaching its decision, the Indian court relied on a string of recent decisions from around the world. For example, it drew from the Canadian approach in Equustek, where the Supreme Court of Canada ordered Google to remove content globally. 

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News
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October 16, 2019
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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocracy
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How Much Google Do You Really Need?

As more people are becoming concerned about Big Tech’s snooping and apparent political ambitions, practical responses are emerging
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October 16, 2019

Getting away from constant surveillance and dangerous little bubbles of manipulated information is easier than some users may realize, tech pioneers and experts say. You can make simple changes today.

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Mind Matters Analysis
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October 15, 2019
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Social Media, Technocracy
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The Golden Age of the Web?—A Dissent

What happened to the collaborative culture, decentralized markets, and wisdom of crowds that bestsellers prophesied fifteen years ago?
Analysis
October 15, 2019

Remembering the prophecies for the web in the halcyon days of ten or (better) fifteen years ago is strangely painful and disorienting, like a hangover, largely because we so silently abandoned its ideals.

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News
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October 1, 2019
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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Social Media
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3G? 4G? 5G? What Gs Are These?

An expert COSM panel will fill us in on what the latest Generation of the internet (5G) and block chain offer us
News
October 1, 2019

The panelists include Jules Urbach, creator of the web’s first 3D video game platform, described by George Gilder as “the most inventive software engineer he has ever met.”

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Russ White
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September 30, 2019
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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Social Media
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Cash For Your Data Won’t Solve Big Tech Privacy Issues

It seems like such a great idea… at first. But how do you know what the data is really worth?
Russ White
September 30, 2019

Privacy is a fundamental right tied to the person, rather than something on which a price tag can be placed, which can be sold for a fistful of dollars.

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Russ White
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September 24, 2019
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Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
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Escaping the News Filter Bubble: Three Simple Tips

Spoiler: Reduce the amount of information big providers have about YOU
Russ White
September 24, 2019

Over time, unnoticed bubbles form ever more effective barriers against alternative information, maybe information you need. But getting out requires only a few simple steps.

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News
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September 16, 2019
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Education, Social Media
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Canadian Province to Ban Cell Phones from Classrooms

Education experts are cautiously hopeful about reducing distraction and cyberbullying
News
September 16, 2019
France and a number of jurisdictions in Britain, as well as some American ones, have already instituted such bans and several studies have identified subsequent improvements in schoolwork. Read More ›
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September 13, 2019
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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Social Media
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Facebook Gets Rich Off What We Tell Our Friends

Social media pioneer David Gelernter also has a proposal for sharing the wealth more fairly
News
September 13, 2019

Yale University computer science prof David Gelernter, “a leading figure in the third generation of artificial intelligence” (Edge.org). social networks pioneer, and Unabomber survivor, discusses his idea in a podcast at The Federalist Radio Hour.

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 12, 2019
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Business and Finance, Social Media, Technocracy
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Fast Facts re the Google, Facebook Anti-Trust Probes

The 48-state pile-on comes just before an election year
Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2019

The accusations by American states of a Big Social Media stranglehold on advertising come on the heels of the European Union fining Google $billions in recent years for anti-competitive activities.

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News
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August 29, 2019
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Education, Social Media
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The Prof Banned Phones in Class. What Happened?

Not a walkout. No riots. No revolution. Some insights though, that match up with other research
News
August 29, 2019
Essentially, the user keeps the phone but must leave the venue to unlock it. Barring a reasonable excuse, that might be like excusing oneself to go outside to smoke. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2019
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Social Media, Technocracy
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Prof: Google Must Not Choose the Next President

Robert Epstein, a Clinton supporter in 2016, thinks Big Tech meddling is a risk. And, he says, he isn’t planning on suicide
Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2019

He doesn’t want Silicon Valley to use its near-monopoly power over search engines and social media to manipulate the information available to the lone voter in the booth.

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2019
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Social Media, Technocracy
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A Closer Look at Google’s Search Engine Bias

If Google’s CEO honestly believes that there is no political bias, that is, in itself, a big part of the problem
Denyse O'Leary
August 16, 2019
If Sundar Pichai thinks that there is no bias in Google's algorithms, he is arguing against the nature of writing algorithms itself—not a good position for a computer guy to be in. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2019
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Social Media, Technocracy
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Google Engineer Reveals Search Engine Bias

He found Google pretty neutral in 2014; the bias started with the US 2016 election
Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2019

The algorithms—the series of commands to computers—“don’t write themselves,” Coppola says. People who have their own opinions may write them into an algorithm, knowingly or otherwise.

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