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"The Power of Fear in Networked Publics" - danah boyd, SXSW 2012 - http://www.danah.org/papers...
“My talk today rests on three foundational claims and one critical question. Foundational Claims: 1. We live in a culture of fear. 2. The attention economy provides fertile ground for the culture of fear. 3. Social media is amping up the attention economy. Thus, my question is simple: as technologists and designers invested in developing the future, what hath we wrought?” - × × ×