by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
We’re mesmerized by our phones. It’s like having a little television set that we can pull out of our pockets, and check into the many dramas unfolding around us whenever we are otherwise unoccupied. Every time we open an app, our content – the information that reaches our eyes – is being controlled by someone else, often […]
We love our phones. App developers create spaces online that we can’t resist. They want us to “Stay, play and pay with our attention or personal data”. (Paul Kennedy, Ideas podcast) The adoption of the smart phone was one of the most massive and ubiquitous technological uptakes in our history. When we go from laptop to […]
According to former Wikimedia Executive Director, Sue Gardner, we spend three hours each day inside our mobile apps, for every hour we spend on the open web (CBC Ideas, Jan 16, 2017). While in many of those apps, what we are exposed to is largely controlled by algorithms. Our feeds are “personalized”, based on our […]
