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“It Sets Boundaries Making Your Life Personal and More Comfortable”: Understanding Young People’s Privacy Needs and Concerns
March 17, 2023FILED UNDER: Articles, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Young people’s unique understandings and perspectives are often not considered in debates and discussions around privacy and security. This article outlines a youth-centric notion of digital privacy and guiding principles around privacy developed by young people from Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Ghana, and Slovenia.

Toxic Technology
March 16, 2023FILED UNDER: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Technology, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Technology has always been about more than simply a route to increased productivity and economic growth; technology also provides the opportunity to enhance, enrich, and empower—basically, to improve shared qualitative values or people’s quality of life (however that is measured). On the flip side, technology also provides the opportunity to develop and project organizational control, which itself can be weaponized to quantitatively determine human value as an asset to that organization, or to reinforce asymmetric power relationships.

An Artful Approach: Reflecting on the Past to Forewarn and Foretell
March 6, 2023FILED UNDER: Articles, Human Impacts, Last Word, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
From the social unity of Ubuntu to the socially ingrained dispositions of habitus, our authors helped us to perceive the value of intentionally weaving together threads of history to shape the present and future social fabric of humanity.
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March 27, 2023FILED UNDER: Articles, Ethics, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
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