Video from our Open Knowledge Foundation expert roundtable
Open Knowledge Foundation kindly hosted an expert roundtable built on the report Dr. Henriette Litta and I co-wrote on Openness titled From Software to Society — Openness in…
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GenAI, polyester & slop galore
David Marx (of Ametora fame), draws parallels between the role of polyester in textile manufacturing and its cultural implications and today’s rise of generative AI. When polyester first…
Democracy needs a healthy internet. We don’t have one.
Here’s a story about how democracy, our very way of organizing our society and our lives, is under existential threat — because our public information sphere, our media environment,…
The link not clicked
Have you ever not clicked a link because you didn’t want to send a signal to an algorithm or the entity behind it? To avoid being targeted with…
A healthy public infosphere is the missing building block in the fight for democracy right now
As we see democracy under pressure from populists and other malign hustlers around the globe, one essential issue has become painfully clear: We do not currently have a…
Some thoughts on News & Democracy
The Reuters Institute published their 2024 Digital News Report. It’s a great resource. Today I want to use it as an occasion to talk about some structural considerations.…
Refractive Fragmentation — where did social media go?
“An X never, ever marks the spot,” Indiana Jones once famously stated. Only in this one particular case, it totally does: When Twitter became X, it very much…