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From the Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/21/youtube-advertisers-censorship?CMP=twt_gu
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These news items emphasise what happens when algorithms step outside our control or when even they aren’t sophisticated enough to do what we want at scale, requiring human input.
They’re also telling of the sort of responsibility we want to take for the tasks and code we create.
Instagram! True Grit?

Article from TES Friday 27 January 2017
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Instagram Video! Mozilla Women’s online rights
Instagram Video! Mozilla’s Privacy Paradox
Instagram! Quick Twitter test – phone

Instagram! Quick Twitter test
Instagram! Black-footed ferret

I heard a discussion on the radio about de-extinction. By saying the term, I’m being complicit in its persistence, further admitting its putative meaning into existence,
The way we talk about (and express) our experiences somehow creates the possibility for the conditions of those experiences (Lister p.210)
A similar concept was articulated by one of the broadcast’s interviewees (Richard Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Biogeography at Oxford University) who argued with conviction that the term de-extinction is actively harmful because it constitutes an understanding of animal species now extinct, or about to become so, as resurrect-able. Such a meaning carries with it the risk that we will not properly care for the biodiversity of our planet because we will soon (in a generation) be able to conjure up woolly mammoths and black-footed ferrets by sleight of our automated hands.
We are doing the same with our technological lexicon – the language of computers, networks, databases and protocols is performing a posthuman self we might easily fail to properly cherish unless, as Shah (2015) urges,
we take the form, function, role, and intention of digital technologies more seriously in our analysis of technosocial regimes and systems of governance. More often than not, the architecture, protocols, algorithms, and the aesthetics and logic of data are not addressed in the growing discourse around study of technology driven social and political organisation.
(Shah, 2015, p.39)
Shah, N. (2015). Identity and Identification: The Individual in the Time of Networked Governance Socio-Legal Review, 11:2, pp.22-40
Instagram! Digital footprints
I took this photo before walking over it. It reminds me how history impacts our daily lives (or in this case, takes the impact!) and of this fascinating book I received which relates how unequal access to the information that is the internet has a history of capitalism, convenience, conduits and corporations; policies, politics and pavements. The internet is retro-fitted, directing us to walk over long set-down discriminations and exploitations.
The embedded Vimeo is very interesting – shades of The New Mobilities paradigm.
Note the stills inside the Hudson Street building – filming prohibited.
Note the names of exchanges at 4.37, they all include x for exchange, but speak of x for exclude.