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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.

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Earlier this month, while on the train on my way to Milan, I noticed a…

Elena RossiniOctober 23, 2018

"Social media are designed to make you addicted and keep you addicted."

Elena RossiniOctober 19, 2018

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2 hours and 50 minutes. The first time the app Moment showed me the exact…

Elena RossiniOctober 16, 2018

"Faking popularity has become the norm on Instagram"

Elena RossiniOctober 12, 2018

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Imagine this: the year is 2003. Somebody comes up to you and says: "In the…

Elena RossiniOctober 9, 2018

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"We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection" – check out the teaser…

Elena RossiniOctober 1, 2018

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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…

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Yesterday I came across an online video that made my jaw drop. A young woman,…