Examples

Question 1

4chan

Answer 1

A website where people can anonymously upload pictures and respond.
* No restrictions.
* (Birthplace of memes and Internet Ugly)

Question 2

After Truth

Answer 2

Post-truth culture: People cannot distinguish true and fake news anymore.
Examples: Pizzagate
Coded emails connecting high ranking officials with human trafficking and child sex rings.

Question 3

Bandcamp

Answer 3

Music streaming service that focuses on albums (NO playlists)

Question 4

BeReal

Answer 4

Ephemeral and Authentic content app where you have 2 minutes everyday to post what you are doing.

Question 5

Cambridge Analytica

Answer 5

Company that collected personal data of Facebook’s users without their consent for political advertising. (2016 USA elections and Brexit)

Question 6

Deliveroo

Answer 6

Gig economy Delivery app.

Question 7

Generation Like

Answer 7

Viewing about the pressures of transforming your content to stay relevant.

Question 8

San Junipero

Answer 8

Black mirror episode with a world in which the elderly can visit or move into a VR paradise.

Question 9

Slashdot

Answer 9

Early Example of a Participatory Media Platform

Malda regularly added features for personalizing and customizing Slashdot, so that readers would see news based on their preferences.

Question 10

Soundcloud

Answer 10

Music streaming service for independent artists. Predominant on hip hop and EMD genres.

Question 11

The Great Hack

Answer 11

Movie about Cambridge Analytica, the 2016 USA elections, Brexit and Facebook.

Question 12

The Playlist

Answer 12

Story of how Spotify was created.

Question 13

The secret rules of modern living

Answer 13

Viewing is about algorithms in a mathematical perspective, except for these topics:
PageRank: Early days of Google, it later transformed itself in personalisation.
Frozen and adaptive algorithms: Content/people could be influenced by your preferences (likes) = adaptive.
Critical note: Algorithms only solve (rather than lead to) problems.

Question 14

We are legion

Answer 14

Historical roots of early hactivists and how they evolved into Anonymous.
GOALS:
* Fight for freedom on the internet.
* No censorship, no leadership, they are one.
* Individual young nameless people.
* Hackers make a statement about how we should treat information.

The history: Hacking originated as a joke, which later went on with technology.

Question 15

Web 1.0

Answer 15

Static pages with read only functions.
Myspace