Science, technology, and the environment - Goods, services, and culture - Electronic communications
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What did the PC replace?
What unanticipated challenges came through because of the web?
- For educators, easy access to information of varying quality left the uncritical student with a false sense that all online materials constituted legitimate sources.
- The omnipresence and increasing sophistication of hand-held devices, together with the popularity of blogging and texting beginning in the early 2000s, occasionally left traditional habits of personal interactions somewhat diminished.
What intrusive side of social media was overlooked?
- During his appearance before Congress, Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook had sold the private information of millions of its users, without their knowledge, to third parties.
- Businesses and marketers, for example, often mined this personal information to understand consumer habits and behavioral histories, targeting audiences with algorithmic precision.
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How did authoritarian states go about social media?
- Governments dedicated to the principle that stability rests on efficient censorship viewed the Internet as an insidious threat to state power. By 2018 authoritarian and/or absolutist states all limited citizen access to the instant information available on the Web.
- But many of these states were also keen to appropriate that same social media in a strategic effort to undermine confidence in democratic governance and free institutions elsewhere.
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