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Balancing acts – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The Court of Justice of the European Union had an important moment on Tuesday, albeit overshadowed by another court elsewhere, ruling that…
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Jumping the shark – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
This week, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Amazon has begun ordering item search results according to their profitability for the company.…
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Collision course – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
The walk from my house to the tube station has changed very little in 30 years. The houses and their front gardens…
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Unfortunately recurring phenomena – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It’s summer, and the current comprehensively bad news is all stuff we can do nothing about. So we’re sweating the smaller stuff.…
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The Internet that wasn’t – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
This week on Twitter, writer and Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost asked this: “There’s a belief that the internet was once great…
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The Hungry, Hungry Data-Miner
by Benjamin Greenaway for Virtual Futures The Hungry, Hungry Data-Miner had just one job. It wasn’t a particularly difficult job, though at…
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Failure to cooperate – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, on display nightly in London’s West End until mid-July, Lynn Nottage explores class and racial…
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Do you eat sand? Privacy in the age of AI – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Privacy, pioneering activist Simon Davies writes in his new book, Privacy: A Personal Chronicle, “varies widely according to context and environment to…
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Games Against Hate
Why Hate? Hate has become an ever present word in UK, with papers brimming with ‘betrayal’, ‘treason’ and daily stoking hate in…
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G in Genomics stands for Gullible – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In 2011, as part of an investigation she conducted into the possible genetic origins of the streak of depression that ran through…
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