Most of us use the Internet each day with our smartphones and devices. But too rarely do we consider how our connections are possible. How does […]
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Looks Like New: What Is a Black Media Philosophy?
A lot of us are thinking about the legacies of racism these days, and about a media ecosystem that seems to hinder any hope of progress. […]
Looks Like New: Can Software Handle Ethics?
Free and open-source software is a kind of miracle. It’s community-created technology, a commons that anyone can contribute to and use. But those communities are not […]
Looks Like New – Could online justice be restorative?
The stakes for moderation and governance in online communities are getting higher and higher. Harms can be very serious, from election manipulation to sexual abuse. But […]
Looks Like New – Can artists control their own business?
Art has often been the vanguard of new tech. It was through art that many people got interested in the Internet to begin with, or became […]
Looks Like New: Does News Need New Tech?
Brick House is a new news organization that calls itself “the wolf-proof media cooperative.” It has emerged in part out of a failed experiment, Civil, which […]
Looks Like New: Should we all have a Great Firewall?
This month, President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the Chinese-owned platforms TickTock and WeChat. This comes after years of China banning major US platforms like […]
Looks Like New: How do you invent the future?
Activist Adrienne Maree brown writes that the work of social change requires “science fictional behavior”— which is surely all the more true in the context of […]