“Cyberspace” was once celebrated as a public, non-tracked space that afforded users freedom of anonymity. How did individual tracking of users come to dominate the web as a market practice?| The MIT Press Reader
The coronavirus pandemic created a surge in demand for exam proctoring tools. Here’s why universities should stop using them.| MIT Technology Review
Though Trump administration officials claim a "censorship cartel" is targeting conservatives online, the available data tells a different story.| Public Knowledge
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…| LibrarianShipwreck
A guide to anticipating the effects of AI and other emerging technologies| untangled.substack.com
A special issue! What actually IS technology? How does it shape social systems?| untangled.substack.com
How the limits of chatbots can point us toward a better search system.| untangled.substack.com
Three weeks ago, I wrote a blogpost about how ChatGPT is a “stochastic parrot” (a term coined by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; see also this video for an explan…| Iris van Rooij