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Twitter is only the 15th biggest social media site
If asked, I suspect that few would accurately position Twitter within a league table of social media sites.
Apr 27
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Is it the internet?
‘Oh, how I wish…everyone everywhere would read this.’ Not my words, the words of Stephen Fry. An unusual thing to find on the front cover of an academic book published by Princeton University Press. Yet that’s what I found adorning the sleeve of Justin E.H. Smith's
Apr 20
2
The suspension of the will to know?
A video of a talk on algorithmic thinking
May 13
1
19 very brief thoughts on writing
Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.
Mar 31
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What is happening with social media?
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The making of Foucault
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Leaving Twitter
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Memory sticks
The case of bookcases
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Three years of The Fragment
I’ve just realised that the 14th of March marked three years since I set up The Fragment newsletter (or blog) on Substack. It began as a small…
Mar 18
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Why the metaverse will never happen
It is far too early to suggest that this is the beginning of the end for Facebook. I doubt we will ever really see the end. It’s too embedded, too…
Feb 9
AI as extraction (part 2)
Some further thoughts on Kate Crawford's recent book Atlas of AI, this time on myths and definitions
Feb 4
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AI as extraction
Materiality and power in Kate Crawford’s recent book...
Jan 20
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Platform sous rature
Are Amazon and Facebook placing themselves 'under erasure'?
Jan 12
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The absence of intros
Writing from somewhere in the middle
Dec 9, 2021
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How data discriminate
The embedding of prejudice and the animation of classification
Nov 22, 2021
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What does it mean to be the 'number one data destination'? Here are four possible scenarios
The future of data, geopolitics and competitive deregulation.
Nov 11, 2021
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