Technology
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Black box archive: preserving culture in the age of generative AI
Will AI-generated content take over the internet? Florence Smith Nicholls explores automated threats to open access – and the caring work of preserving online cultures
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Kenya’s youth-led revolution
Rasna Warah reports on how young people in and beyond Kenya are using social media to challenge corrupt, old-school politicians
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Behind the ‘Great Firewall of China’
Jiannan Shi reports on China’s internet censorship – and the creative ways people are finding to sidestep it
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Breaking up with my X
Tom Whyman traces a personal journey with Elon Musk’s social media platform: from a coming-of-age love story to Twittering off
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Twitch and the online left
Political livestreaming shows news consumption has become a form of community participation in which political ideology is reinforced, argues Samuel Rafanell-Williams
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Key words: Innovation
‘Innovation’ is often invoked as a byword for progress within capitalism, but as Joe Mayall explains, such progress does not serve everyone equally
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Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis
Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine
