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Pitch black and hopeful

ECOLOGY: I the Deep Adaptation Norway group articulates the fear of collapse and total collapse. Artificial intelligence and wild plants, preparing for the disaster, unity and fear are discussed there. In that context, Professor Jem Bendell recommends an ideological paradigm shift in the footsteps of Buddhism, deep ecology and critical theory.

The heyday of information capitalism

INTERNET: In 2017, two-thirds of Americans received large portions of their daily news dose via social media. The coincidence of financial capitalism and information technologies creates, according to Joseph Vogl, "resentment-driven echo chambers."

What should Europe do?

EUROPE: Europe and EU co-operation have developed in step with society's crises and challenges. On that occasion, MODERN TIMES has asked a number of Norwegian opinion leaders questions about the future of Europe. The EU's Green Deal shows leadership on the environment and climate, in addition to digital services. We ask which areas the EU should prioritize, with appropriate political, legal or industrial initiatives and forms of cooperation.

These giga platforms

FACEBOOK: Where is the limit of social media use of freedom of expression if they deliberately ignore systematic and global abuses in the form of hate speech and undemocratic methods such as fake news and hate speech?

What about surveillance in the digital culture revolution?

Big tech: The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?

Transhumanism's dream of eternal life and zero pain

THE TECHNICAL POWERS: Two new books on people and technology: We are all influenced by the pressure chamber social platforms that Facebook creates. And what about NRK, should they actively participate in such a development?

Cryptocurrency: Facebooks Libra

Krypto: The time when bank payments across national borders took five days is not yet over. But it does not cost five percent of the transaction anymore. But what about those without a bank account? Libra is driving development

The age of the platforms

MEDIA: Author Geert Lovink analyzes contemporary use of social media and looks at a possible end to "platform nihilism".

On the way into the 2020's

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL: The conversation with Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

From the mass party and the TV party to today's digital party

FACEBOOK'S POLITICAL PAGE? The new "digital" parties are experimenting with social media in order to reinvent the party form and eliminate the distance that has arisen between political leaders and the population.

Bone women's fight in a male-dominated industry

DISCRIMINATION: Jill Abramson gives the unmasked truth about how female journalists are subjected to sexism in some of America's largest newspaper houses.

Diaries from the wild youth of the internet

DOTCOM: The first internet revolution is a wild chapter with a strange mix of comedy and disaster. An inside perspective and the wisdom of the future help us to ask again if everything could have gone differently.

A digital omnipotence?

The Facebook scandal last year demonstrates how negligent social network providers are bypassing the data of their users – and clarifying what enormous challenges "The Big Four" faces in our democracy.

The Invisible Facebook Moderators

The global social media platforms 'cleaners' live in harsh communities and in relatively disordered conditions compared to those they clean up after.

The sweat of the work

The book Move Fast and Break Things draws sharp criticism of Google, Facebook and Amazon, but at the same time is partly romantic and uninhibited.

Facebook as a co-driver

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