#TechAndSociety

Scientific Worldscientificworld
2025-05-20

Discover why we ignore people for our phones! Dive into the sociology of smartphone etiquette, exploring phubbing, social norms, and civil inattention. Learn how phones shape our interactions and get tips to stay connected IRL.

youtu.be/9KgHhXpCfcw?si=aJnfwa

SCENOR | The Science CrewScenorCrew
2025-04-25

🎮 INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE: online gaming and influencer culture are shaping young men's beliefs in troubling ways. Read on 👉 buff.ly/495NcvB

The Internet is Cracktheinternetiscrack
2025-04-25

We made avatars of ourselves and forgot how to be human.
Professor Niko Poulakos joined The Internet is Crack to discuss how the internet is reshaping human connection—and the quiet cost of forgetting how to show up in person.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
youtu.be/nRQyNkuKMCQ

Center for Media EngagementEngagingnews@newsie.social
2025-04-07

🔍 New from CME: Lebanese women & queer journalists face techno-alienation—a deep sense of abandonment after platforms fail to protect them from online harassment.

Too little, too late isn't enough.

#DigitalHarms #TechAndSociety

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

PMUG NJpmugnj
2025-03-30

…just discovered the Somewhere on Earth Podcast. It follows tech and society, and is the spiritual successor to BBC Digital Planet — Gareth Mitchell from DP even hosts the show! 😃

somewhereonearth.co

2025-03-08

On #InternationalWomensDay, a boost for Myrna Moretti's excellent and accessible 2023 paper "Keeping up with Atari: Neoliberal Expectations in Early Electronics Advertising".

Myrna analyses the famous Atari "Have You Played Atari Today?" US TV adverts of the 1970s and 1980s.

Abstract

During the early 1980s, ad campaigns framed purchasing and using emerging consumer electronics as tools for accessing, what Lauren Berlant called, ‘the good life.’ Computers, video games, VCRs, and cassette players might help consumers cultivate a neoliberal, upwardly mobile, and implicitly white, lifestyle. This paper explores early personal computer and home console video game advertisements as a cultural discourse that framed emerging technology through normative gendered, raced, and classed everyday lifestyles in an American context. The central case study is the early 1980s televisual ad campaign for the Atari 2600 system, featuring the “Have You Played Atari Today?” jingle. The campaign was widely viewed and is representative of contemporaneous marketing approaches. The ad’s allusion to time management both reinforced broader neoliberal paradigms and enacted a gendered slippage between labour and leisure. This paper draws from feminist critical theory approaches and uses textual analysis to understand the ways that electronic advertisements appealed to late capitalist social attitudes.

archive.org/details/keeping-up

#RetroComputing #Feminism #SocialHistory #TechAndSociety #Neoliberalism

A landscape mobile screenshot of the top of the PDF of the paper, showing the author's name, the paper title and part of the abstract. (All of this is in the toot.)
Linda Sgoluppi Artistlindasgoluppiart@mastodonapp.uk
2025-03-05

I woke and couldn't get back to sleep so I wrote this on my wordpress site:
wp.me/p3i4FR-xO

#MonstersWeFear #TechAndSociety
#HopenotHate #lindasgoluppiart

An abstract painting by Linda Sgoluppi based on Plato's cave analogy
George Stationharmonygritz
2023-11-19

I am reminded by another post that Paleofuture is a fun element that Mastodon does not yet have in sufficient supply.

Looks like "himself," Matt Novak, chose not to be active in the fediverse?

Anyway here's the post I saw. More like this would always be welcome IMO:

mastodon.social/@publicdomainr

George Stationharmonygritz
2023-08-07

I think Bluesky has bugs in Safari, so I'm including a screenshot as well as the direct link to a "share-worthy" post over there.

bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan

Tex of Aug. 6, 2023 Courtney Milan post on Bluesky: The old rule used to be "if you're not paying, you're the product" but I think at this point we should all just assume that we're always the product no matter what, and paying just demonstrates that we're products that will pay for things.
Matteo Giglioligiglioli@mstdn.social
2023-05-03
2022-11-05

Hive mind: what would be a good server for an academic organization/entity focused on the intersection of technology and society? #academia #sts #techpolicy #academidon #techandsociety

2022-11-02

Just realized that you can read *some* U.S. legislation re political messaging (e.g. requiring it to pass spam filtering) to the extent that if the GOP set up a Mastodon instance, U.S. Mastodon instances would *have* to federate with it?

#mastodon #federation #moderation #politics #techandsociety

2022-11-01

Okay, here's a slightly different version of the thread I did on Twitter about today's episode.

(That thread is here: mobile.twitter.com/hondanhon/t)

#mastodon #socialsoftware #socialnetworks #techandsociety

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