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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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What happened in Fiji with the arrival of television is a harbinger of the monumental…

Elena RossiniSeptember 8, 2023

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What is the new problem with no name? Maybe that in our current society we…

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How an unexpected life event forced me to slow down... and live a low tech…

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Cameras everywhere: what happens when we become unwitting content for someone else's social media? Reflections…

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Are we naturally inclined to seek the envy of others? Are online platforms designed to…

Stand Out of Our Light I just finished reading James Wilson Williams's brilliant book Stand Out…

Elena RossiniApril 21, 2023

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

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

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