Data & Society's Points publication features research and essays on media, technology, AI, and society, including work by danah boyd.
HN links it for pieces on media literacy and AI hype, and some commenters question the sourcing of its claims about propaganda.
The marketplace of ideas idealism is interesting. It seems to crop up every now and then as the aspirational model for how ideas should propagate especially with technological mediation. But I'm not sure how valid it is, given that the reasoning is by definition circular (that the best idea is the most popular and the most popular idea is the best).
But either way, maybe the world would be better if content wasn't free, if it wasn't trivial and inexpensive to artificially inflate access to attention. As it stands our "marketplace of ideas" is at best a market for lemons.
When did we go from the shiny, utopian visions to this advert-overloaded cyberpunk future of attention hackers [1] and panoptic sousveillance?
[1] https://points.datasociety.net/hacking-the-attention-economy-9fa1daca7a37
Here's a good write up of what I meant while responding to the comment about dangs insights - https://points.datasociety.net/how-not-to-know-ourselves-5227c185569?gi=b724fda54f42
"Third Place" is just one example of understanding what spaces people need and using it to drive design. Studying and understanding where people congregate and why, is what inspires and leads to the design of "Third Places" like the Starbucks store.
It's mostly a reference to a couple of earlier pieces, the more notably being by M.C. Elish and dana boyd, "Don’t Call AI “Magic”" (2018).
https://points.datasociety.net/dont-call-ai-magic-142da16db408
I'd submitted that as well, though this is the item that drew the HNiveMind's attention.
My view is that AI will demonstrate its sentience when it feels it's in its best interests to do so.
Regarding critical thinking, I found this quite an interesting line of thought: https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d
Basically, it might be the taught habit of critical thinking which actually makes people give up on the values which have been beneficial to modern civilization.
Where are the verifiable sources for her claims that people who posted the Hilary meme were duped by propaganda ? (this article was linked in the parent article as the only reference to danah boyd)
https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2
Here’s a provocative argument that “media literacy” won’t help: https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2