Background

Wellbeing

Health

• Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (book, nonfiction).

• Will Storr - Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed (book, nonfiction).

Social

• Ciarán Mc Mahon (academic psychologist) - The Psychology of Social Media (Forum topic) (book, nonfiction).

• Sherry Turkle - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (book, nonfiction).

Children & teens

• Jamie Doward and Sam Hall - Technology cuts children off from adults, warns expert (article, nonfiction).

• Centre for Information Rights, University of Winchester - Have ‘Generation Tagged’ Lost Their Privacy? (report).

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Society

• Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life - Cracked Labs report, June 2017 (article, nonfiction).

• Franklin Foer - World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (book, nonfiction).

• Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (book, nonfiction).

• George Orwell - 1984 (book, fiction).

• Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (book, fiction).

• François Truffaut - Fahrenheit 451 (movie, fiction).

• Nathalie Maréchal - Talk on networked authoritarianism (slides, nonfiction).

• Chandler Tuttle - 2081 (adaptation of the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut) (movie, fiction).

• George Lucas - THX-1138 (movie, fiction).

• Carole Cadwalladr - Facebook’s role in Brexit - and the threat to democracy (TED, talk).

Privacy

• Episodes from the Borja Moya Show:

  • The Future of DEMOCRACIES Depends on How We Deal with PRIVACY TODAY (YouTube, Podcast) (interview).

  • COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA: Why Data Extraction Allows MANIPULATION (YouTube, Podcast) (interview).

  • Illiberalism, Polarized Societies and Inner Dictatorships // a Conversation with Alessia Putin (YouTube) (interview).

  • The Rise of Data Dictatorships (YouTube) (nonfiction).

  • The Digital COLD WAR (YouTube) (nonfiction).

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Freedom

• James Williams - Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (book, nonfiction).

• Saqib Shah - China uses facial recognition to monitor ethnic minorities (article, nonfiction).

• Mozilla Foundation - Internet Health Report 2019 (report).

Security

• Bruce Schneier - Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (book, nonfiction).

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Alignment

• David Jay - Why Some Movements Thrive and Others Don’t (article, nonfiction).

• Jeremy Rifkin - The Third Industrial Revolution (talk).

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