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Down with Metrics: The Exquisite Joys of an Unquantifiable Life Longread

Down with Metrics: The Exquisite Joys of an Unquantifiable Life

There is a lot of value and happiness to be found in private, unseen, unquantifiable…

Elena RossiniApril 13, 2023

Programmatic advertising and distracted minds: a match made in (Internet) heaven AdvertisingLongread

Programmatic advertising and distracted minds: a match made in (Internet) heaven

What is programmatic advertising and why should we care about it? And how does the…

Elena RossiniApril 6, 2023

The real enemy of a Realist isn’t Big Tech… It’s Indifference Longread

The real enemy of a Realist isn’t Big Tech… It’s Indifference

Big Tech isn't the enemy - the real problem is INDIFFERENCE to the monumental changes…

Elena RossiniMarch 31, 2023

In Praise of Friction and Compromise ArticleSocial Media

In Praise of Friction and Compromise

An ingenious app encourages its users to cut down on social media use - and…

Elena RossiniJanuary 18, 2023

Better than social media: how I built a private, independent database to keep in touch with the most important people in my life Article

Better than social media: how I built a private, independent database to keep in touch with the most important people in my life

Digital sovereignty also means: having full control over how you interact with your friends -…

Elena RossiniDecember 9, 2022

Our infinite appetite for distractions: yesterday, today and tomorrow Article

Our infinite appetite for distractions: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Thought-provoking musings about our tendency to seek out distractions - from intellectuals from the 1930s…

Elena RossiniJuly 22, 2022

NextDNS: My favorite tool to increase privacy, security and mindfulness online Article

NextDNS: My favorite tool to increase privacy, security and mindfulness online

NextDNS is an easy-to-install firewall that protects you from surveillance capitalism and security threats. It's…

Elena RossiniJune 24, 2022

Little Miss Wise as a parable for our brave new digital age Article

Little Miss Wise as a parable for our brave new digital age

How Roger Hargreaves's story could be adapted to our days... but with a twist

Elena RossiniJune 17, 2022

How to be a realist in an extremely online world * Fave *LongreadStart Here!

How to be a realist in an extremely online world

What is a realist? Someone who deeply cherishes life in the real world over life…

Elena RossiniJune 2, 2022

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