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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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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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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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What the Internet is not for? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
It may seem unfair to keep busting on the explosion of the Internet’s origin myths, but documenting what happens to the beliefs…
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Misforgotten – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“It’s amazing. We’re all just sitting here having lunch like nothing’s happening, but…” This was on Tuesday, as the British Parliament was…
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Prognostalgia – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“What seems to you like the big technology story of 2018?” I asked a friend. “The lack of excitement,” she replied. New…
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Behind you! – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
For one reason or another – increasing surveillance powers, increasing awareness of the extent to which online activities are tracked by myriad…
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Digital rights management – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on Net.Wars “I think we would distinguish between the Internet and Facebook. They’re not the same thing.” With this, the…
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