Fifteen clicks of online fame »

13 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Who wouldn’t want to be a model? To have your face all over town, promoting the new car, razor or anti-aging creme? With Google’s announcement this can be a dream come true, at least on a small scale.... »

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Dude, it’s code – we can do anything! »

12 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

“Dude, it’s code – we can do anything!” That line has stayed in my head for years, I heard it at a games conference five or six years ago. It was a panel on emotions in games and one programmer* elabo... »

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Techno-centrism as neo-liberalism »

10 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

I meant to change topics, but Morozov published another thought-worthy column in Germany today, this time in the Süd-Deutsche Zeitung, where he discusses techno-centrism (or techno-utopianism) as a co... »

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Teddybears over Belarus »

9 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

It’s Europe’s last dictatorship, run for almost two decades by Alexander Lukashenka. No free media, opposition leaders in prison (and often beaten), leader cult surrounding the dictator… simply put, i... »

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More Morozov »

7 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Following up on yesterday’s post on the work of Evgeny Morozov, in his most recent book To Save Everything, Click Here the writer digs deeper in some of the concepts discussed in the Die Zeit-column. ... »

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Morozov’s Three Principles for Seeing Through Internet Mumbo-Jumbo »

6 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week’s best read was US-based Belarusian writer Evgeny Morozov’s deconstruction of the popular internet intellectuals discourse in Die Zeit (which graciously provides the original English version... »

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Silicon Valley’s Favourite Intellectual Property »

5 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Intellectual property rights online are obviously a topic of hot debate as the digital domain expands, just think about ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. The so-called reformists are in most cases pirate ideologist... »

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Virtual Dejá Vu »

3 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Is “virtual reality” coming back into fashion? This technology involves replacing sensory input from the outside world with synthetic digital signals through goggles, ear plugs, gloves and similar. It... »

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Filter Bubbles and Algorithms See Right through You – or Do They? »

2 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Your online newspaper is different from mine. That’s right, we can go to the same website and get different versions. With cookies, websites keep track of user behavior and adjust the content to fit t... »

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Are Machines Humans? »

29 September 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week’s column by Waldemar Ingdahl discusses the proposition that robots could take over all sorts of jobs from humans, not only the ones we have learned to associate with automation (such as manu... »

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