Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia's "first edit" was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn't right, and I wondered what …
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Digital Complicity
Earlier this year I posted a summary of Lepora and Goodin’s (2013) framework for complicity; I now have a draft making use of that …
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Lepora and Goodin on Complicity
What is complicity? Lepora and Goodin (2013) provide the most comprehensive framework for parsing and assessing the moral blameworthiness of complicit behavior.
In their analysis …
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The Geek Syndrome, Brains, and Gender
The Google Memo
Earlier I reviewed the literature on whether there is a distinct geek style of thinking?. This question recently went mainstream as a consequence of James …
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FOMO Interview
Nerd vs. ‘bro’: Geek privilege, triumphalism, and idiosyncrasy
Calculability, quantification, datafication
I recently noted that datafication has a Wikipedia article. This is another term for a phenomenon I usually speak of as quantification, following Ritzer and …
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Compelling Nonsense: TED and the New Dr. Fox
A recent TEDx Talk by Will Stephen is the new “Dr. Fox Lecture.” In the 1970s researchers designed an experiment to see how a group …
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