Archive - Dave Beer - The Fragment

A video of a talk on algorithmic thinking

May 13

If asked, I suspect that few would accurately position Twitter within a league table of social media sites.

Apr 27

‘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…

Apr 20

Not rules, guidance or advice, just some thoughts.

Mar 31

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

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

Some further thoughts on Kate Crawford's recent book Atlas of AI, this time on myths and definitions

Feb 4

Materiality and power in Kate Crawford’s recent book...

Jan 20

Are Amazon and Facebook placing themselves 'under erasure'?

Jan 12

Writing from somewhere in the middle

Dec 9, 2021

The embedding of prejudice and the animation of classification

Nov 22, 2021

The future of data, geopolitics and competitive deregulation.

Nov 11, 2021

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