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Joseph Vogel: Capitalism and resentment

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."

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.

Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

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

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world

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?

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THE TECHNICAL POWERS: Two new books about 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?

CRYPTO: 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

Geert Lovink: Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism

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

NEWSPAPER EDITOR: The conversation with Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Paul Gerbaudo: The 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 the political leaders and the people.

Jill Abramson: Merchants of Truth – The Business of News and the Fight for Facts Author

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

Matthew Carnahan: A Very Public Offering. The Story of theglobel.com and the First Internet Revolution / Valley of the Boom

: DOTCOM: The First Internet Revolution is a wild chapter with a strange mix of comedy and disaster. An inside perspective and the wisdom of posterity help us to ask again if everything could have gone differently.

: The Facebook scandal last year demonstrates how careless providers of social networks handle the data of their users – and clarifies what colossal challenges "The Big Four" poses to our democracy.

Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck: The Cleaners

: The "cleaning helpers" of the global social media platforms live in harsh societies and in relatively disorderly conditions compared to those they clean up after.

Jonathan Taplin: Move Fast and Break Things

: The book Move Fast and Break Things directs sharp criticism at Google, Facebook and Amazon, but is at the same time partly romantic and unvarnished.

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