better interfacesNotes interfaces driven by human need, hardware taking cultural-political stance, interface branch of tech-for good organic connections through soft-body tech consider combining epaper combined with efabric, and what it is that is useful about these new materialities, and looking into others fabric environmental sensing and computing E-textiles for assisted communication, extensible custom systems interactive learning mediums through physically embodied tech early years educational resources that are digitally enhanced, safe (and durable?) interfaces developed through participatory methods ux research to the extreme, from initial conception to continued testing and improvement consider eg indie tech with considerable consumer participation ...
online exploitation and consentNotes TODO consent to film, consent to post, consent to quote even I saw someone grant consent for body doubling over tiktok live - new levels to which I didn’t consider that consent could be required young people, your own children, new era of child star boundaries with your loved ones and what they post of you ‘vulnerable’ people, framing, misrepresentation inspiration porn strangers ...
data ethics data feminism eg feminist data set by Caroline Sinders https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/ STEM work by and for underrepresented minorities data science as a newer form of power empirically wrong data categorisation, incorrect and unjust binaries data visualisation datasets that are skewed, incomplete or lack diverse representation medical studies historically exclude black women data collection on trans people very poor i’ve seen a bunch of papers on this i just haven’t got round to cataloguing them here data witnessing Mentions “All data is historical data, the product of a time, place, political, economic, technical and social climate. If you are not considering why your data exists and other datasets don’t, you are doing data science wrong.” — Melissa Terras (quoted in How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse) ...
alternative systemsour time and energy is limited; face the way you want to go Mentions “To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here “all roads to Mishnory”. To be sure, if you turn back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitable to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.” - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin why ‘alternative systems’ revolt vs reform things that must change slowly things we’re all tasked with upholding things that we’re doomed to repeat discussion of strategy vs tactics bottom up top down convergence gift economies in theory and practice public conveniences community-owned infrastructure non-hierarchical organisations abolition (alternatives to policing and justice system) symbiosis of theory and practise indieweb decentralisation etc ...
internet activism community building amplifying minority voices, feminist voices, leftist voices algorithmic audience management, reaching out, discovery, solidarity wider global audience work against online harassment, cyber bullying, doxxing, revenge porn child protective work (ethics and efficacy aside) etc ...
internet sociology The internet now as a representative of mass culture, a conglomeration of special interest areas and personally curated feeds of more and less ubiquity Popular culture now looks like what? ‘Relatable’ content based more or less on certain lifestyles The concept of ‘viral’ in the early years meaning everyone internet connected saw it, vs now. The power of cookies, stored data, analytics, targeted advertising forming not a mass hive mind of indoctrination but actually specialising and specifying people into isolation. Mass control of content by corporations use to over generalise which isolated outsiders but now it bands outsiders together, which can be both beneficial and harmful Incredibly specialized niches in reddit forums and other special-purpose sites and forums Locality/community? Community Facebook pages and Marketplace, ‘Nextdoor’ type apps community guidelines parasocial relationships personal branding, aliases, avatars, multi-identity, relatability cultural exchange ...
Initiatives for Web FreedomRun-down of open internet initiatives and movement of people pushing against platform problems, algorithms etc. TO DO The people’s internet DWeb NLnet ...
Web 3.0Whilst often conflated with Web3 due to crossover in designation and terminology (eg ‘federation’ and ‘distributed’ and ‘peer to peer’), Web 3.0 forms a distinct movement whose goals are wider-reaching and more socially valuable....
platform powerNotes internet users en masse being siloed by unnecessarily proprietary platforms and non-interoperable data formats freedom of movement in ‘fediverse’ and similar ecosystems internet platforms as compared to physically isolated locations boundaries, entrance, mediated communications affiliations, groupings, territory metaphors for these spaces Mentions “Since the introduction of timeline, one might see Facebook as a passport to participating in the most prevalent form of capturing, mediating, and archiving personal life accounts.” “Facebook locks the subject into a specific techno-economic regime of navigation through mediated memories. There is a contract and transaction written into every passport. In return for the right to freely cross borders, the authority has right to control this mobility, while acquiring insight into the subject’s personal information.” -> ⤴️ ...