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Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

septiembre 1, 2022 by Dr. Mark Carrigan, Dr. J.J. Sylvia IV

Abstract Social media platforms have received increasingly bad press coverage over the course of the last decade for everything from problematic uses of algorithms to the ability of authoritarian regimes to leverage them as a way to impact elections. Unfortunately, this emphasis on critique, though justified, has led to a paranoid form of thinking in which many understand that … [Read more...] about Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

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