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Understanding and Resisting Big Tech

Dozens of articles shedding information on Big Tech, surveillance capitalism and the dark side of online advertising.

How to guides about how to use technology more mindfully – and not be used by it.

"Melinda Gates's children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

A Channel 4 interview with internet pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of "Ten Arguments for Deleting…

Elena RossiniJanuary 7, 2019

"Any moment of life becomes a kind of popularity bargaining chip, to show that either…

Elena RossiniDecember 20, 2018

"I decided to represent their faces literally sucked into their phones, which makes them beings…

Elena RossiniDecember 12, 2018

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Last week I had a second filming session with photographer Antoine Geiger. We shot B-roll…

Elena RossiniNovember 23, 2018

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Have you ever heard about the Hawthorne Effect? It's a theory by social scientists, that…

Elena RossiniNovember 19, 2018

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

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

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