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How to Save Democracy From Technology

Big Tech threatens democracy. Few have considered a practical solution: taking away the platforms’ role as gatekeepers of content.

Users, not some #AI program, should determine what they see in #Social #Media. Fukuyama Francis, Barak Richman and Ashish Goel talk about the #Middleware approach and how it should be used to end #Big #Tech’s #Information #Monopoly. #ForeignAffairs

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Follow-Up Post – The #Value of #Statistical #Life, an estimate of the amount that people are willing to pay to prevent an expected #Death, made us wonder about the use of #Ethics in the definition & use of such an important #Social & #Economic term. #TED_ED http://ow.ly/oLxU50AALPo

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Pricing Lives

How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it

Follow-Up Post - #Pricing #Lives: Guideposts for a #Safer #Society. A book in which W. Kip Viscusi presents how society’s undervaluing of #Life puts all of us at #Risk and the groundbreaking #Economic measure that can fix it. Princeton University Press

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What Is a Life Worth?

COVID-19 and the economic value of protecting health.

Perhaps one of the most important benefits of the #Value of #Statistical #Life is that it reveals that the dichotomy between #Risks to #Health and #Risks to the #Economy is often a false one. Article by W. Kip Viscusi. Foreign Affairs

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A closer look to the work of #Michel #Foucault and its major contributions to #Philosophy, and #Surveillance #Studies. Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy http://ow.ly/TwH050Awdm0

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In his classic book #Discipline and #Punish #Michel #Foucault argues that the development of #Prisons, #Police #Organizations and #Legal #Hierarchies has merely changed the focus of #Domination from our bodies to our souls. #Surveillance PenguinUKBooks http://ow.ly/oYYS50Awd5q

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#Technologies originally developed for #Policing and prisons have expanded into nonjuridical domains and not only they extend #Prison #Spaces into the #Public #Sphere but also deepen #Racial #Hierarchies and engender new systems for #Social #Control. Duke University Press http://ow.ly/rQ3u50Awczv

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After showing how a range of #Discriminatory designs encode #Inequity Ruha Benjamin makes a compelling case for #Race itself as a kind of #Technology, designed to stratify and sanctify #Social #Injustice in the architecture of #Everyday #Life. #polity http://ow.ly/5jbW50AvRJu

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When it comes to #AI we really need to ask how #AI is shifting #Power. Pratyusha Kalluri on how to listen to, amplify, cite and collaborate with communities that have borne the brunt of #Surveillance and #AI #Research and #Development. #nature http://ow.ly/Vasr50AvRfT

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The #Science of #Fake #News. A state-of-art #Research about #Fake #News and the unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, #Politically oriented incarnation. Science Magazine http://ow.ly/kEo150AvQNz

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Even if #Technology promotes the spread of #Fake #News, it is insufficient to consider the examined technology as bad without acknowledging the fact that it is situated in a #Consumer #Society. An excellent entry point for the examination of the link between #Technology and the #Consumption of #Fake #News by Pak-Hang Wong. http://ow.ly/JIYd50Asf29

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Do you have a balanced social media diet?

The content we consume online affects our health and well-being.

We are what we #Consume. Just as what we eat impacts well-being, our #Digital diet influences what we think, feel, do and say in the moment or over the long haul. Carrie Barron on how we can help #Technology help us and other people. Interview by Leah Dismukes. University of Texas at Austin

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The Psychology Of Fake News

How can we succeed in creating and perpetuating a culture that values and promotes truth? Cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo considers the science of fake news — and how to protect ourselves.

Due to #Technology anyone in the world can be a source of #News. Second, again because of #Technology, we are inundated by #Information. Finally, people have the freedom to tune into news sources that tell them what they want to hear. Steven Sloman on the #Psychology of #Fake #News. Interview by Tania Lombrozo. #NPR

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Our Ability to Process Information Is Reaching a Critical Limit

The result feels like a mental DDoS attack

Adapting to a flood of #News might require a #Social #Change in news #Consumption habits. Eric Ravenscraft on why our ability to process #Information is reaching a critical limit and how we can move towards a possible solution. #Medium #OneZero

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In #Liquid #Modern #World #Surveillance spreads in unimaginable ways, responding to and reproducing the nature of #Modern #Life, seeping into areas where it once had only marginal sway. The #Surveillance analysis of David Lyon meets the #Liquid #Modern #World dissected by Zygmunt Bauman. polity books http://ow.ly/fiqX50A8w4d

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What are the #Cultural meanings of data-defined bodies? David Lyon analyses #Biometrics and emphasizes that #Biometrics #Technologies are ‘racially’ skewed and this has profound #Ontological as well as #Ethical consequences for the industry. #Bioethics. http://ow.ly/a0Hg50A8vLW

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Through #Biometrics bodies may become inscribed with #Identities shaped by longstanding #Social and #Political #Inequalities. In her book "The Machine-Readable #Body", Irma van der Ploeg addresses the issue of #Biomettrics.