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Technology Thinkers help us understand the complex relationship between the rapid and accelerating technological change and human prosperity, social equity, and human quality of life.
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Technological Thinkers
Technology Thinkers help us understand the complex relationship between the rapid and accelerating technological change and human prosperity, social equity, and human quality of life.
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Media Reformers
Media Reformers focus on improving the many different types of communication media in ways that will better promote civic life (at both local and national level) while resisting pressures to feature demonizing and divisive content.
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Constructive Media
Constructive Media work to defend and strengthen the ability and inclination of media to provide the public with accurate and understandable information about the problems facing society. Their goal is to encourage the media to better support democracy by promoting content that is constructive, rather than inflammatory and inaccurate.
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Here's a cautionary story about ChatGPT--it gets some things right, but surprisingly, seems to make other things up! (No surprise, actually, there are plenty of fake facts on the web for it to choose from.)
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Social Media and Political Dysfunction: A Collaborative Review
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How the Internet Became a Doom Loop
Much of hyperpolarization is attributable to vulnerabilities inherent in the structure of modern, Internet-based information systems which somehow need to be overcome.
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How Social Media Destroys the Things That Matter Most
Thought-provoking reflections on how social media is undermining the way in which we think, communicate, and structure our social lives.
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Provocative new insights into the ways in which the Internet and social media contribute to hyper-polarization (and another reason to question our simple explanations of complex realities).
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The Daily Me
Reflections on a media environment in which we all edit our own "newsfeeds" and the danger that we will edit out inconvenient truths on both the left of the right.
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The Race for Clicks Was a Fool's Game
Reflections on the implications and costs of the kind of journalism that places so much emphasis on building an audience.
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News in a Digital Age
A major report from the Rand Corporation exploring the many ways in which the high-tech information revolution has transformed the flow of information regarding political issues.
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Algorithms Hijacked My Generation. I Fear For Gen Alpha.
Reflections on the critically important role being played by the algorithms which determine what, exactly, we see through our Internet-based window to the world.
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How Social Media Is Turning Into Old-Fashioned Broadcast Media
Just when we were starting to think that we had social media figured out, important news that it is transforming itself (and its social impact) once again.
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The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism
Reasons why our instinct to be distrustful of the big information technology companies is well-founded.
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Google's Brave New Woke-AF World
A critical look at the very real possibility that a progressive political agenda will wind up driving the AI revolution that will remake how we know most everything about ourselves.