This - while not dealing with Humane Tech solutions - constitutes some very interesting reading on the internal processes of Facebook, describing in detail their problems of the last 2 years, and reveals the company culture and decision-making processes…
I can’t wait to read this in the morning… Discovering this website at midnight was an awful idea…
As a local slactivist with little to no tech knowledge. How would you start to spread the message? Short of a manic Facebook post (My usual tactic).
I want to yell it at everyone, but I don’t want to weaken the message and the work you are all putting in.
How do I be a productive promoter of this content?
I just preordered Irresistible by Adam Alter, but there is a plethora of tasty reads up on Edge.org (an amazing community, perhaps forming a bond here would be very productive)
These two articles have been extremely helpful to me ask I have delved deeper into this conversation. Tom Chatfield approaches this from a philosophical angle.
Books:
I’ve found these books really fascinating and would recommend them highly.
Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. New York: Penguin Press, 2015.
Simanowski, Roberto. Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Verbeek, Peter-Paul. Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Verbeek is one my favourite authors on the philosophy of technology.
“… The key to establishing what we all should and shouldn’t be doing with tech ethics is to start conversations and share our lessons with each other.”