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Made You Look! Advertising and the New Attention Economy
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/hey-you-look-over-here-advertising-and-the-dawn-of-the-attention-economy/ Figure #1 – Taste the difference? (Bond, 2020) Why do we have advertising? Paying for content via advertisements is a relatively recent phenomenon. In his important and timely book The Attention Merchants (20106), author Tim Wu … Continue reading
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Step Back: Google’s AR Experiment Promotes Social Distancing
When we commune with nature, we can become deeply immersed in its rich splendor. Similarly, when we are with friends or precious loved ones, we can become lost in the charms of those around us. During these increasingly rare moments, … Continue reading
Digital Guinea Pigs: Downplaying Online Experimentation
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/hooked-downplaying-online-experimentation/ Figure #1. Wire me in! (Graphis Competitions, 2011) Many people are surprised, even shocked, at the amount of experimentation happening in online spaces. This includes social media platforms as detailed in the video What Makes You … Continue reading
Everything is for Sale
By Dino Sossi Everything is for Sale
Posted in algorithm, business, comedy, corporate communication, data, data broker, digital, education, experiment, infographics, information, internet, law, media, news, pop culture, privacy, research, right to be forgotten, social media, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, technology, Uncategorized
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Teens On Oversharing Online (Graphic)
By Dino Sossi, Updated May 28, 2020 https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/teens-on-oversharing-online/ Figure #1 – Oops, shouldn’t have sent out that tweet… We live in a sharing economy. Everything is sharable. Including our personal information. A recent study by the Pew Center for Internet Research (2016) found … Continue reading
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Sharp Tweets-Would Trump Be President Without Twitter?
By Dino Sossi (updated November 4, 2020) https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/negative-repercussions-would-trump-be-president-without-twitter/ Figure #1 – “Would ya just watch the hair?” (image–University of South Australia, 2019; quote–Saturday Night Fever) You may have disliked the final results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election or even … Continue reading
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The Tragedy of Tyler Clementi
By Dino Sossi https://dinosossi.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-tragedy-of-tyler-clementi/ Tyler Clementi was, in many ways, a typical teenager. Figure #1 – Tyler Clementi (CBS News, 2010) Raised in small town New Jersey, Tyler dreamed of going to college. He was accepted into Rutger’s University, a … Continue reading
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Future of the Internet II-The dawn of Internet 2.0
The Future of the Internet: Challenges Ahead in Global Cyber Policy – Q&A The following is a synopsis of the question and answer period following the panel talk “The Future of the Internet: Challenges Ahead in Global Cyber Policy” panel … Continue reading
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Future of the Internet I-The dawn of Internet 2.0
The Future of the Internet: Challenges Ahead in Global Cyber Policy – Panel The following is a synopsis of “The Future of the Internet: Challenges Ahead in Global Cyber Policy” panel held Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6:00 PM – 8:00 … Continue reading
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The Man in the Machine
Understanding Steve Jobs Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Jobs’s popularity helps us know ourselves Executive Phil Schiller once said, “Education is deep in Apple’s DNA.” It wasn’t a line. Two years after the company was founded, Apple signed … Continue reading
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