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Digital Detox #4: A Case Study of Suck
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Digital Detox #4: A Case Study of Suck

ByBrenna Reading Time: 11 minutes

A subtitle of sorts: Contract Cheating and Equity, Data, and Algorithms. Today we’re going to talk a little bit about contract cheating and a lot about what contract cheating tells us about the problems endemic to our relationship to technology. I’ve chosen this as a focus not only because it is a massive growth-area of…

Digital Detox #3: Algorithms and Exclusion
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Digital Detox #3: Algorithms and Exclusion

ByBrenna Reading Time: 8 minutes

Today’s topic is a particularly heavy one, because I’m going to ask you to wrestle with the idea of what social exclusion looks like in the context of technology, and how many modes of exclusion are baked in to the technology we use, especially through the mechanism of algorithms. You probably have some idea of…