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Elena RossiniSeptember 3, 2024
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Cameras everywhere: what happens when we become unwitting content for someone else's social media? Reflections on photography and consent in this brave new online world.
Elena RossiniMay 26, 2023
Are we naturally inclined to seek the envy of others? Are online platforms designed to put us in competition against one another? Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
Elena RossiniMay 10, 2023
Stand Out of Our Light I just finished reading James Wilson Williams's brilliant book Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. So many passages stood out.…
Elena RossiniApril 21, 2023
There is a lot of value and happiness to be found in private, unseen, unquantifiable moments. Big Tech thinks otherwise.
Elena RossiniApril 13, 2023
What is programmatic advertising and why should we care about it? And how does the internet's business model affect our experiences online?
Elena RossiniApril 6, 2023
Big Tech isn't the enemy - the real problem is INDIFFERENCE to the monumental changes created by Big Tech. Media literacy and digital literacy are essential.
Elena RossiniMarch 31, 2023
What is a realist? Someone who deeply cherishes life in the real world over life spent online. Privacy, a mindful approach to the internet...
Elena RossiniJune 2, 2022
Mass media and advertising are no longer the main illusionists in our culture. WE ARE. We have become illusionists, by the way we present ourselves on social media.
Elena RossiniApril 21, 2022
An update about the status of the documentary THE REALISTS on the dark side of our digital economy. TL;DR: it's in production
Elena RossiniApril 15, 2022
Social media platforms have an ideological bias: they glorify the present. Why? Follow the money (and the algorithm).
Elena RossiniApril 1, 2022
Being seen, being visible, commanding positive attention on the internet is the new status symbol.
Elena RossiniMarch 23, 2022
"Social media" companies are built on a big lie: they don't care about us socializing; they are data mining companies that make money through targeted ads
Elena RossiniNovember 30, 2021
Writer Neil Postman warned us: "A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything." On the metaverse and its dangers.
Elena RossiniNovember 9, 2021
While people are feeling anxious and insecure over Coronavirus, governments around the world are exploiting the situation to normalize mass surveillance.
Elena RossiniMarch 31, 2020
Italian psychologist Francesca Morelli shares some observations about the life lessons we can learn from the Coronavirus outbreak.
Elena RossiniMarch 18, 2020
Moving to a new apartment has forced me to be on a low-tech / digital minimalist lifestyle for a month. I loved every minute of it. Thing is, you don't…
Elena RossiniFebruary 19, 2020
We've entered a brave new world of "Smart TVs": virtually all television sets now record, store and sometimes share with third parties massive amounts of data about viewers' TV habits.…
Elena RossiniFebruary 4, 2020
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch For the past 10 years, the words "illusion"…
Elena RossiniJanuary 29, 2020
Let’s play a game. It’s 2008. You have a brand new smartphone that is making your life so much easier: from ubiquitous email, to maps and GPS, and the world’s…
Elena RossiniJanuary 15, 2020
