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Read More: #31: look deeper into the migrant experienceAccording to a press release from The New School/Parsons, their show State of Exception/Estado de Excepción “presents traces of the human experience—objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants…
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Read More: #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a changeThe winner of HackPrinceton 2016 is FiB: “Let’s stop living a lie.” FiB says: “In the current media landscape, control over distribution has become almost as important as the actual…
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Read More: #29: interrupt the narrativeIn “10 WAYS TO BE A FEMINIST MEDIA ACTIVIST” Feminist Frequency recommends: “While it can be some of the most challenging work, interrupting the status quo and talking to friends…
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Read More: #28: face(book?) is best for people with pale skinIn “Smart.Dumb AI-Powered ‘Fake News’ Search Suggestions,” Jonathan Albright follows the search crumbs to some pretty powerful hardtruths. This wonderful resource was suggested to me by Lisa Hirschfield, as were…
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Read More: #27: new image holding environments neededIn my review in the Brooklyn Rail of the ICP show Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, I write: As access has exponentially grown to visualization and distribution technologies,…
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Read More: #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight neededAccording to the Pew Research Center, in “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age“: “While many of the 2016 U.S. presidential election post-mortems noted the revolutionary impact of web-based…
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Read More: #25: evidence of the opaque and intricate apparatus of our reality needed“Evidentiary Realism focuses on artworks that prioritize formal aspects of visual language and mediums; diverging from journalism and reportage, they strive to provoke visual pleasure and emotional responses. In particular,…
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Read More: #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said restricting access to social media would mean “being cut off from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas. And the First Amendment includes…
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Read More: #23: galvanize people at the crossroads of cinema and community“On April 4, 2017, almost 90 art house movie theaters across the country in 79 cities and in 34 states, plus one location in Canada, will be participating collectively in…
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Read More: #21: focus on trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experienceMisinformation, and increasingly disinformation, is distorting the public’s ability to make sense of the world around them, threatening the democratic process around the globe. While not a new phenomenon, the…