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Cybersalon Top 15 – watched/read events from 2021
Covid lockdown and Brexit restrictions provided us with strong impetus to seek international collaborations, stay connected with our partners in Europe, Russia,…
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Your Face Belongs To You by Wael Elazab
EXT. Cornfield, late EVENING. towns people gather, staring at large, ominous light in the sky. Squinting, the bright light descending, the townspeople…
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The Time Travelling Milkman
Written by Jane Norris for ‘Tales from Cybersalon’, June 2021. The opening question my boss asked me was ‘What is the first…
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Meals on Wheels
Written by Britta F. Schulte for ‘Tales from Cybersalon’, March 2021. „Hello?” … “Oh, hi Ben, so good to hear from you!…
Read More » Cybersalon Year in Review 2020: From Games for Survival to Digital Sovereignty
2020 will be remembered for the damaging global impact of the Covid19 pandemic. Millions of people have experienced illness, loss of earnings…
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Track and trace or duck and dive – Covid19 surveillance apps
Covid19 has brought us pain and suffering but also a huge number of new words and phrases. One of them is Syndromic…
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Privacy matters – Net.Wars by Wendy Gorssman
Sometime last week, Laurie Garrett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Coming Plague, proposed a thought experiment to her interviewer on MSNBC.…
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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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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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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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