More: Social Media
They promised us Martian colonies; instead, we got Facebook
The advent of the digitization changes the values of the society,
especially as an apparatus of power,
not as a real benefit to humanity.
Everyone
talks about digitalization....
Do Albanians like Fascism? An Iconographical Investigation on Social Media Material
Far right groups with fascist-like ideologies and aesthetics are not
rare in the Balkans. I am not referring to parties with nationalist and/or
irredentist programs, which...
Ethics, Truth and Post-Truth: Political and social implications
I want to reflect on ethics, truth and post-truth in the context of
accelerated changes in the economy, politics, society, culture and digital
knowledge, information and...
After Google’s new set of community standards: What next?
After weeks
of Google’s community standard guidelines made headlines, the Digital Industry
Group Inc. (Australia based NGO) rejected proposals from the regulating body
based in the southern...
Thank You Greta: The Young Lead in the Climate Crisis
To say
Greta Thunberg is a remarkable young girl is to understate her
accomplishments. She is phenomenal. She has successfully exploited social media
and through dogged persistence...
Feminist Technoscience
‘Networked
feminism is a phenomenon that can be described as the online mobilization and
coordination of feminists in response to perceived sexist, misogynistic,
racist, and other discriminatory...
Air pollution in a tweet: Communicating complex science
Air pollution is a complex issue that is difficult to communicate to
most people. What causes air pollution? How does it affect our children’s cognitive
development?...
Tackling hate speech: Tech companies and world leaders opt for band-aid solutions
There’s a ‘blame the messenger’ quality to global efforts to counter
misinformation, extremism and hate speech by world leaders and technology
companies.
The efforts are informed by...
Not faith, ‘but those who manipulate the faithful’ driving wedge between religions
Following a string of hate-fuelled attacks on places of worship around
the world, the High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC), said on Thursday...
Soft power as an important structural component of a foreign policy strategy of a state
The
architect of the ‘soft power’ concept Joseph Nye focuses on ‘the ability to
achieve the desired through voluntary cooperation, not by coercion or tricks’.
The name...