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Apple Child Safety Harms
How Apple is moving into mass surveillance. A walkthrough of all the risks.
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compassion
Questions for self-reflection
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visualisation
The topple of an iceberg: You're drawing it wrong
It turns out all those "tip of an iceberg"-drawings are giving the wrong idea.
digital guidance
Teaching Online
How to plan your days, communicate, listen, set up your room and tech, as well as a comprehensive list of tools that are helpful for online teaching.
digital ethics
Surfacing Podcast interview with Per Axbom
I was recently interviewed by Lisa Welchman and Andy Vitale for their Surfacing Podcast [https://www.surfacingpodcast.com/per-axbom], where they "have conversations with the people who design and create experiences for our world." It's such a warm, reflective podcast and I felt really welcome and
digital guidance
Types of Bad Accessibility Excuses
I love a good meme and have been looking through many of the different versions of the "Types of Scientific Paper [https://axbom.com/types-of-ai-ethics-paper/]" meme on Twitter. Not a single one I've come across has had an image description in the form of ALT (alternative)
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Types of AI Ethics Paper
Political philosopher Dr Annette Zimmermann [https://www.annette-zimmermann.com/] published a very piercing cartoon on Twitter [https://twitter.com/drzimmermann/status/1388526687814656004?s=21]. It is a pastiche of the XKCD cartoon Types of Scientific Paper [https://xkcd.com/2456/], and creatively reimagines titles of papers that expose flawed thinking
digital ethics
Apple launches tracking device with potential for abuse enablement
This week, Apple launched a new physical product aimed at keeping track of your belongings: AirTag [https://www.apple.com/airtag/]. These are small round tiles that you can attach to keys, bags and vehicles, allowing you to see where they are on a map. They also introduce a risk
digital ethics
The Elements of Digital Ethics
A chart to help guide moral considerations in the tech space.
digital guidance
Clubhouse overview - a visual guide to the app
Learn how to find your way around the Clubhouse app.
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The power of glocal thinking
Balancing what's remote and what's nearby with planetary health When I started working as a web designer at Ericsson in 1998, glocal was a buzzword. "Think global, act local" the managers would exclaim. In essence it asks that we consider the global impact of
digital ethics
Digital abuse is hard to leave – by design
Once we recognise digital harm as a form of abuse it becomes clear how the same patterns of victim-blaming that we see in all abusive relationships tend to be repeated.