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Critical Analysis of Digital Infrastructure and Technology Culture
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Ghost Protocols: The Invisible Labor of Automated Systems
Uncovering the human costs behind seemingly autonomous technological processes and the hidden workforce that keeps automation running.
The Bandwidth of Being
On the compression algorithms of human experience in digital environments and what gets lost in the translation to data.
Push Notifications and the Architecture of Attention
How mobile notifications reshape human consciousness and create new forms of digital dependency through carefully engineered interruption patterns.
Digital Archaeology: Excavating Deleted Data
What happens to our digital traces when we think they're gone? An investigation into data persistence and the archaeology of the internet.
Static Patterns: Social Media and Information Decay
How social media platforms generate noise that drowns out meaningful communication, creating echo chambers of algorithmic static.
Algorithmic Redlining in Digital Spaces
How machine learning systems perpetuate and amplify historical discrimination patterns in housing, lending, and employment.
Attention Decay: Measuring Digital Distraction
Quantitative analysis of how digital interfaces fragment human attention and the cognitive costs of context switching.
Digital Interference Patterns
The unintended consequences of overlapping digital systems and how technological interference creates new forms of chaos and order.
When Numbers Strangle Movement
On the quantification of human experience and how metrics become the reality they claim to measure, constraining the very phenomena they track.
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