He has written a previous book, Big Data Shocks, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings about MDLs, Big Data, privacy, open access, and so on. He also provides guidance and informal advice about copyright and publisher’s agreements.Īndrew’s area of research investigates digital publishing, digital collections, massive digital libraries (MDLs), and, lately, big data and information pathologies – including privacy, fake news and the proliferation of misinformation. He helps with the collection of open access faculty publications, ETDs, university archives, data management and data management planning. His work is mainly concerned with developing our open access institutional repository and scholarly communication services for CSUN’s faculty, staff and students. The book will therefore also examine the possible directions we could take to improve the situation, looking at solutions in the areas of psychology and behavioral conditioning, social engineering through nudging techniques, the development of e-democracy movements, and the implementation of public policy.Īndrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge. The future of the internet as well as our societies depends upon our ability to discern truth from lies and reality from propaganda. What’s ultimately at stake is how we are able to cope with increasingly invasive anti-social behaviors, the overall decline of privacy in the face of total surveillance technologies, and the lack of a quality online experience that doesn’t devolve into flame wars and insults.
The book explores the issues raised by the negative side of information technology, including surveillance and spying, declining privacy, information overload, surveillance capitalism and big data analytics, conspiracy theories and fake news, misinformation and disinformation, trolling and phishing. These are but a few of the topics that The Dark Side of Our Digital World: And What You Can Do about It examines to get at the root causes of our current problems with information technology, social media, and problematic online behavior. We’ve all had to endure the troll that derails a generally benign conversation or received that scam email from a wealthy Nigerian prince or felt the strange feeling of being watched and tracked by advertising companies as we navigate the web. But it’s morphed into something totally unintended. It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders.
An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives.
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