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Joining the Fediverse

The Realists joins the Fediverse: this website will have its own social profile on there…

Elena RossiniSeptember 3, 2024

Invasive ad tracking: how Instagram spoiled the surprise of my boyfriend’s proposal Article

Invasive ad tracking: how Instagram spoiled the surprise of my boyfriend’s proposal

On Big Tech's sophisticated (and creepy) ad tracking: some harmless and some devastating examples -…

Elena RossiniJune 21, 2024

Show Me Your Ads Advertising

Show Me Your Ads

We’ve grown so accustomed to tailored online advertisements that we don’t question how invasive -…

Elena RossiniJune 14, 2024

The French Government’s Push to Curb Children’s Screen Time Article

The French Government’s Push to Curb Children’s Screen Time

We are arguably still in the “Wild West Era” of the Web. The French Government…

Elena RossiniMay 3, 2024

How to Stay Grounded Online – a conversation with Justin Hanagan Article

How to Stay Grounded Online – a conversation with Justin Hanagan

The Realists interviews Justin Hanagan, the author of the brilliant newsletter "Stay Grounded Online" -…

Elena RossiniApril 19, 2024

5 stories about Big Tech to improve your digital literacy skills Article

5 stories about Big Tech to improve your digital literacy skills

Unmasking illusions about Big Tech: on AI hype, hoaxes and privacy violations

Elena RossiniApril 4, 2024

Share with Care Article

Share with Care

In this brave new world of AI generated images, sharing photos of yourself online may…

Elena RossiniMarch 22, 2024

Seeing is believing? Welcome to the post-truth era disrupting our sense of reality Article

Seeing is believing? Welcome to the post-truth era disrupting our sense of reality

Generative AI tools are advancing at breakneck speed, disrupting our perception of reality. But there…

Elena RossiniMarch 15, 2024

The Small Town in France Aiming to Kickstart a Global Conversation about Phone Addiction Article

The Small Town in France Aiming to Kickstart a Global Conversation about Phone Addiction

On phone addiction and its consequences: a small town in France attempts to start a…

Elena RossiniFebruary 29, 2024

From the Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy Social Media

From the Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy

Pinocchio's Pleasure Island may be an apt metaphor of our times

Elena RossiniFebruary 22, 2024

Woman vs. Artificial Intelligence: the LEGO Challenge Article

Woman vs. Artificial Intelligence: the LEGO Challenge

What happens when you use an AI app to build with LEGOs? On human creativity,…

Elena RossiniFebruary 16, 2024

Visions of the Future: How to Be a Realist in a Techno-Optimist World Article

Visions of the Future: How to Be a Realist in a Techno-Optimist World

Will the real world be rendered boring and bland by spatial computing? Is this future…

Elena RossiniFebruary 9, 2024

My Sandboxed “Candy Bar” Phone: Curbing Distractions and Safeguarding Privacy Article

My Sandboxed “Candy Bar” Phone: Curbing Distractions and Safeguarding Privacy

My system to curb distractions and increase my data privacy: a separate sandboxed smartphone that…

Elena RossiniFebruary 1, 2024

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The In-Betweeners

Since my childhood, I have been an in-betweener: one foot in the digital world; one…

Elena RossiniJanuary 25, 2024

We need to talk about Fiji Article

We need to talk about Fiji

What happened in Fiji with the arrival of television is a harbinger of the monumental…

Elena RossiniSeptember 8, 2023

The digital mystique and the new problem with no name Article

The digital mystique and the new problem with no name

What is the new problem with no name? Maybe that in our current society we…

Elena RossiniJuly 27, 2023

The Italian Dispatch: Church Bells, Clocks and Social Callouts Article

The Italian Dispatch: Church Bells, Clocks and Social Callouts

How an unexpected life event forced me to slow down... and live a low tech…

Elena RossiniJune 16, 2023

Cameras everywhere: navigating consent in this brave new online world Longread

Cameras everywhere: navigating consent in this brave new online world

Cameras everywhere: what happens when we become unwitting content for someone else's social media? Reflections…

Elena RossiniMay 26, 2023

The envy of others? Longread

The envy of others?

Are we naturally inclined to seek the envy of others? Are online platforms designed to…

Elena RossiniMay 10, 2023

Aligning our life goals with our technology use LongreadStart Here!

Aligning our life goals with our technology use

Stand Out of Our Light I just finished reading James Wilson Williams's brilliant book Stand Out…

Elena RossiniApril 21, 2023