a 2020 docudrama by Jeff Orlowski
We at OpenmindProjects do recommend if you are interested in at least one of these issues:
· Politics and society
· Tech
· Fake news and conspiracy theories
· Rumours and manipulaton
· Democracy
· Privacy/Integrity
· Utopia and/or Dystopia
· Critical thinking
Quote: “If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product”
It
· explores the rise of social media and the damage caused to society
· focusing on its exploitation and manipulation of users for profit through surveillance capitalism and data mining.
· how social media's design nurture addiction,
· its use in politics
· effect on mental health (including the mental health of adolescents
· interviews with former employees, executives, and other professionals from tech and social media, their experiences
· stating that social media and big tech provides positive change but also problematic social, political, and cultural consequences.
· presented with dramatizations of a teenager’s social media addiction
· and how a social media algorithm powered by artificial intelligence can work.
Some names;
· Tristan Harris Former Google Design Ethicist (2013-2016)[2]. Co-Founder of Center for Humane Technology[4]
· Tim Kendall Former Facebook Executive (2006-2010) Former President of Pinterest CEO of Moment, an application for mobile devices that tracks screen-time[5]
· Jaron Lanier Author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018)
· Roger McNamee Early investor at Facebook[6] Venture Capitalist
· Aza Raskin Employed by Firefox & Mozilla Labs Co-Founder of Center for Humane Technology[4]
· Justin Rosenstein Facebook engineer (2007-2008) Google engineer Co-Founder of Asana[8]
· Shoshana Zuboff Professor Emeritus at Harvard School of Business Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)[9]
· Jeff Seibert Former executive at Twitter
· Chamath Palihapitiya Former Vice President of Growth at Facebook (2007-2011)
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