"Abstract Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid being tempted by attention-grabbing and potentially harmful content. We argue that digital information literacy must include the competence of critical … Continue reading Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Tag: censorship
Conceal Network
"Conceal Network is a secure peer-to-peer privacy framework empowering individuals and organizations to anonymously communicate and interact financially in a decentralized and censorship resistant environment."-https://conceal.network/
Amazon’s Censorship of Devil Daddy
"Censorship is alive and well over at Amazon Kindle. Last time it was our scholarly edition of the rare 1881 Victorian gay text Sins of the Cities of the Plain, which they banned for several years. Now they've banned the ebook of John Blackburn's 1972 horror novel Devil Daddy, while refusing to explain why. At … Continue reading Amazon’s Censorship of Devil Daddy
Message Board Rot
"This ties into something I’m extremely interested in that I like to call “message board rot”. I like looking for signs that social networks are dying or atrophying. I’m not sure why, but I’ve always found it fascinating that one day Myspace was the biggest thing in my social life and then one day it … Continue reading Message Board Rot
Redacted
"This tool lets you redact parts of an image, by adding a blurred, pixelated or black boxes to specific areas." —https://marky.space/redacted/
The Other in the Academy
"The theory that a political debate can only be won by silence should sound strange in the mouths of people who toil in the realm of ideas. Alas, it isn’t strange at all. I have a friend who compares his academic work today to 'a mine-clearing operation': at any moment, you might step on a … Continue reading The Other in the Academy
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