Ethan Zuckerman talks about what Wikipedia gets right, and references recent Reimagining the Internet guest Heather Ford.
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Gobo.social
Since 2017, we’ve been running Gobo.social as an experiment with you, the social media user, to explore how you could control what you see on platforms. Instead of Facebook’s algorithm or Twitter’s trending topics, you get to choose how the information from all of the people you follow is filtered. We have some new ideas… Continue reading Gobo.social
Prospect (UK): “How to Fix the Internet”
Ethan Zuckerman kicks off his editorial series for the new British magazine Prospect with an intro to digital public infrastructure.
The Atlantic: “Facebook Is Hiding the Most Important Misinformation Data”
Ethan Zuckerman published this article in The Atlantic and The Conversation on November 3rd, 2021. “Billions of people have apparently encountered vaccine lies on the platform, but that number means nothing without a denominator.”
The Atlantic: “Hey Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago”
This article by Ethan Zuckerman was published in the Atlantic on October 29th, 2021.
The Atlantic: “Facebook Cares About Your Privacy — But Only If You’re an Advertiser”
This article by Ethan Zuckerman was published in the Atlantic on August 26, 2021. Per their website: “The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.”
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci published the ebook An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media with original artwork by Fiammetta Ghedini.
he book is adapted from the Mapping Social Media” series of blog posts written by Ethan and Chand for the Knight Foundation, documenting the wide variety of ways social media is put together on the Internet.
New Approaches to Platform Data Research
In March, we published iDPI’s first piece of research, New Approaches to Platform Data Research. This was written by Elizabeth Hansen-Shapiro, Michael Sugarman, Fernando Bermejo, and Ethan Zuckerman. Download the full report here. The white paper was originally commissioned by the NetGain partnership as a post-mortem on the Social Science One initiative. Ultimately, the research… Continue reading New Approaches to Platform Data Research
Prospect (UK): “How to make better algorithms: start with the people who train machines”
Ethan Zuckerman rights for Prospect about algorithmic justice.