Millions of links are shared on Twitter each day.
A fraction of these links end up in my timeline, shared (and sometimes authored) by the accounts I follow. Most of the time, they point me to great articles I might have missed otherwise.
Below you can find links to some of these articles.
I have selected them for their originality and relevance. They have all been brought to my attention via Twitter and provide crucial insights into various issues related to the internet:
- Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong
About why neither facebook nor twitter are relevant for sharing
by A. Madrigal - “social” versus “Social”
A long over-due disambiguation of “social” (hint: Social Media is not social)
by W.E. Boesel and N. Jurgenson - Restoring the balance of power over online data privacy
Claiming ownership
by L. Heinrich and J. MacDonald - What price success? (a note on corporate ethics)
Why a certain “bad” word is crucial for humanity
by L. Heinrich - Free Speech and Power: From Reddit Creeps to anti-Muslim Videos, It’s Not *Just* “Free Speech”
Important reading about the power-blind discourse of “free speech” defenders
by Z. Tufekci
I urge you to read them now. All of them.