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https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/
In 2017, Nate Persily, a Stanford Law School Professor, published an article in The Journal of Democracy entitled "Can Democracy Survive the Internet?" I don't want to "Fukuyama" this question - declaring something dead before enough time has passed to really know - but I do think we can say,
In 2017, Nate Persily, a Stanford Law School Professor, published an article in The Journal of Democracy entitled "Can Democracy Survive the Internet?" I don't want to "Fukuyama" this question - declaring something dead before enough time has passed to really know - but I do think we can say,
Risques versus dommages : Jeunesse et médias sociaux.
un billet d'humeur de dana boyd qui file la métaphore de la rue (et du ski) pour aborder la question des risques qu'il y a à la traverser et parler d'éducation aux médias.
"La dure réalité est que chaque environnement social comporte des risques. Et l'une des parties clés de la socialisation de l'enfance à l'âge adulte est d'apprendre à évaluer les risques et à y répondre."
#réseauxsociaux #éducationauxmédias #parentaliténumérique #danahboyd #jeunesse
I hate that the "social media is bad for teens" myth will not die. In this little rant, I tackle one part of this puzzle: the obsession with "harms" (thanks lawyers) and the implications of not thinking through how to respond coherently to risks.
The Social Media Moral Panic Is All About Confusing Risks & Harms | Techdirt
Review of danah boyd’s latest:
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/10/the-social-media-moral-panic-is-all-about-confusing-risks-harms/
Don't miss #danahboyd on data voids - the potentially insidious uses of intentional informational black holes. Insightful and well-written, as always. https://datasociety.net/points/making-sense-of-data-voids/
(And yes, as dana points out, "data void" rhymes with "dana boyd", so don't be fake annoyed or take a 'roid.)
This!
"I have no interest in defending tech companies. I’ve spent years lambasting their abuses of privacy, their vulnerabilities towards algorithmic manipulation, their toxic dependence on advertising, and their arrogance. What irks me is not the idea that tech should be regulated, but the tendency by politicians to (ab)use children in their pursuit of regulating tech."
#DanahBoyd, 2024
https://zephoria.substack.com/p/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids
"To be honest, I am pulling my hair out over 'online safety' bills that pretend to be focused on helping young people when they’re really anti-tech bills that are using children for political agendas in ways that will fundamentally hurt the most vulnerable young people out there."
#DanahBoyd, 2024
https://zephoria.substack.com/p/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids
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