📑 We Have Never Been Social | Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Annotated We Have Never Been Social by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)

I imagine that the first part of this project will focus on how it got to be this way, what got missed or ignored in some of the early warnings about what was happening online and how those warnings were swamped by the hype depicting the Internet as a space of radical democratization. ❧

I love the brewing idea here. We definitely need this.

Some broad initial bibliography from the top of my head:

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshona Zuboff (Public Affairs)

Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci (Yale)

Larry Sanger (co-founder of Wikipedia)

How to decentralize social media—a brief sketch

Proposing a “Declaration of Digital Independence”, (WIRED 3/19)

Version history for “Declaration of Digital Independence”
I’ve seen via personal correspondence, should be publicly available soon:

Declaration of Digital Independence

FAQ about the project to decentralize social media

Social Media Strike!

Some useful history/timelines:

I’m curious if you’d publicly share your current blbliography/reading list?