🎧 The Profit Pervert Problem

Even indie platforms sell out once scale kicks in.
Data mining. Microtargeted ads. Profit over people.
We spoke with Alice E. Marwick from Data & Society about how the internet rewards exploitation—and why civil discourse keeps failing.

🔗 Full episode: https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0

#SurveillanceCapitalism #TheInternetIsCrack #AliceMarwick #PlatformGreed #DigitalEthics #DataAndSociety

Mainstream media didn’t widen the public sphere—the internet did.
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#BLM and #MeToo didn’t rise through newsrooms—they broke through online.
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New episode of The Internet is Crack: Alice Marwick joins us to explore how platforms shape speech, distort discourse, and empower protest.
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🎧https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0

#TheInternetIsCrack #PublicSphere #AliceMarwick #DigitalVoices #PlatformPolitics #TechEthics

The internet used to target “public figures.” Now it targets everyone.

In this episode of The Internet is Crack, we speak with Alice Marwick about the myth of online immunity. As jobs and identities become public by default, everyday people are thrust into the same algorithmic spotlight once reserved for the famous.

Listen to the full episode:
https://youtu.be/VQvzxDak_Z0

#FediEthics #DigitalPublic #AliceMarwick #TechEthics #Podcast #DataAndSociety #OnlineHarassment #InternetCulture

> ... the site’s original name, BackRub, was a reference to the backlinks it was using to rank results. If your site was linked to by other authoritative sites, it would place higher in the list than some random blog that no one was citing... #Google officially went online later in 1998.
“Google has gotten shittier and shittier.” - Alice Marwick
> ... [Because] the company turned on its #AdSense program.
- Anil Dash

https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords
#BackRub #InternetHistory #AnilDash #AliceMarwick