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By Matthew Charette 18 October 2021 @ 2:42pm Comments (2)http://www.netflix.com - Week 5 from of COMP650 saw us looking into cyberbullying and general abuse online. This led me down some interesting rabbit holes, a lot of which were centered around self-worth/self identification and how the internet has implicated those in...LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction
By Jon Dron 19 August 2020 @ 10:53amwww.cc.gatech.edu - This is a fantastic example - from 1992 - of how it is completely impossible to separate out the digital technologies from the social technologies (the rules, norms, procedures, etc) in a social software system. Social software is not just code: it...WT.Social
By Jon Dron 18 August 2020 @ 10:31pm Comments (1)https://wt.social/ - A social network that you can pay for, created by Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame). You can get in right away with no payment but I chose to pay because I believe in this kind of thing. It looks pretty cool, more set-like than network-like. From the...jwz: Instagram Hates The Internet
By Jon Dron 30 March 2016 @ 11:00am Comments (3)www.jwz.org - Quite opinionated perspective on Instagram as an old fashioned bulletin board system and the deeply harmful lock-in practiced by most social media companies on the Internet today. Though the tone of the article is angry (and, strangely, doesn't...
