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What happens when everybody lies? Social Media

What happens when everybody lies?

By design social media platforms encourage performative content. But there is another way.

Elena RossiniMay 11, 2022

Instagram vs. Reality? FaceApp and the uncanny world of photo editing apps * Fave **Most Popular*Longread

Instagram vs. Reality? FaceApp and the uncanny world of photo editing apps

Mass media and advertising are no longer the main illusionists in our culture. WE ARE.…

Elena RossiniApril 21, 2022

Status update: what is happening with the documentary The Realists? * Fave *Announcements

Status update: what is happening with the documentary The Realists?

An update about the status of the documentary THE REALISTS on the dark side of…

Elena RossiniApril 15, 2022

Why social media platforms glorify the present Article

Why social media platforms glorify the present

Social media platforms have an ideological bias: they glorify the present. Why? Follow the money…

Elena RossiniApril 1, 2022

The Pressure to be popular is purely for profit ArticleLongread

The Pressure to be popular is purely for profit

Being seen, being visible, commanding positive attention on the internet is the new status symbol.

Elena RossiniMarch 23, 2022

Do we really want to mix communication and advertising? Longread

Do we really want to mix communication and advertising?

"Social media" companies are built on a big lie: they don't care about us socializing;…

Elena RossiniNovember 30, 2021

What is media ecology? A must-know term in the age of the ‘metaverse’ ArticleStart Here!

What is media ecology? A must-know term in the age of the ‘metaverse’

Writer Neil Postman warned us: "A new technology does not add or subtract something. It…

Elena RossiniNovember 9, 2021

Coronavirus & the Normalization of Mass Surveillance ArticleLongread

Coronavirus & the Normalization of Mass Surveillance

While people are feeling anxious and insecure over Coronavirus, governments around the world are exploiting…

Elena RossiniMarch 31, 2020

What Coronavirus can teach us about life Article

What Coronavirus can teach us about life

Italian psychologist Francesca Morelli shares some observations about the life lessons we can learn from…

Elena RossiniMarch 18, 2020

One month of (unintentional) Digital Minimalism Longread

One month of (unintentional) Digital Minimalism

Moving to a new apartment has forced me to be on a low-tech / digital…

Elena RossiniFebruary 19, 2020

Are you watching TV… or is the TV watching you? Article

Are you watching TV… or is the TV watching you?

We've entered a brave new world of "Smart TVs": virtually all television sets now record,…

Elena RossiniFebruary 4, 2020

Quitting Whatsapp & Pulling Back the Curtain on Facebook’s Grand Illusion Article

Quitting Whatsapp & Pulling Back the Curtain on Facebook’s Grand Illusion

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life…

Elena RossiniJanuary 29, 2020

My attempts to escape Facebook Inc.’s data mining: leaving Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Longread

My attempts to escape Facebook Inc.’s data mining: leaving Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Let’s play a game. It’s 2008. You have a brand new smartphone that is making…

Elena RossiniJanuary 15, 2020

The Memory Police & How Social Media Changed Friendships ArticleLongread

The Memory Police & How Social Media Changed Friendships

The Memory Police, a haunting novel by Yoko Ogawa, made me reflect about how technology…

Elena RossiniDecember 17, 2019

Did you have a Facebook account before April 2015? Then you must read this Article

Did you have a Facebook account before April 2015? Then you must read this

If your Facebook account was set up before April 2015, your personal data might have…

Elena RossiniDecember 10, 2019

3 key habits to become a successful digital minimalist *Most Popular*ArticleLongreadStart Here!

3 key habits to become a successful digital minimalist

The first few weeks of a digital detox / minimalism overhaul are incredibly hard. Here…

Elena RossiniNovember 28, 2019

How do I resist “Time Thieves”? Through FRICTION ArticleStart Here!

How do I resist “Time Thieves”? Through FRICTION

In praise of friction. Friction is the best defense against Big Tech's assault on our…

Elena RossiniNovember 19, 2019

Amnesty International’s Kumi Naidoo: “Data is power and the asymmetrical nature of that power is terrifying” Article

Amnesty International’s Kumi Naidoo: “Data is power and the asymmetrical nature of that power is terrifying”

Amnesty International's director Kumi Naidoo spoke at Web Summit 2019 about the "surveillance industrial complex"…

Elena RossiniNovember 18, 2019

The dark side of AI: writers Jia Tolentino and Ocean Vuong on how algorithms are killing serendipity *Most Popular*Article

The dark side of AI: writers Jia Tolentino and Ocean Vuong on how algorithms are killing serendipity

We're in the golden age of algorithmic recommendations, of artificial intelligence dictating which books and…

Elena RossiniNovember 13, 2019

What Motivated Me To Rebel Against “Time Thieves” * Fave *Longread

What Motivated Me To Rebel Against “Time Thieves”

The top 3 reasons why I actively rebel against "time thieves" (all kinds of media…

Elena RossiniNovember 12, 2019