What is the role of bias in creating technological tools?
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet. Andrew Marantz
- Identities are a big part of how technological tools are created e.g. Reddit’s first users were most similar to their co-founders
- Lived experience e.g. Jessica Ashoosh (Reddit’s head of policy) based decisions using their experience of the Arab government
“If you’re fourteen, Snapchat’s user interface is intuitive; if you’re twenty-two, it’s intriguing; if you’re over thirty-five, it’s impenetrable. This encourages old people to self-deport.”
Over time, social networks have turned into institutions - same AFK, e.g. some artist galleries
Facebook’s “massive-scale emotional contagion” experiment.
Here is the public space (document) I’ve made online
It will exist until I take it down or google takes it down or goes down.