Carl Heath – Musings on the Internet

Tag: English

  • Time of Change – Now is the Time for an Open Digital Society

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    Imagine all the squares, streets, parks, and venues you visit or live by in are owned by just one or a few companies. They not only own all these places but also determine what they are to be used for, and who can use them. They decide who can be there and who cannot. Mostly,…

  • Travelling fast on the bumpy road of AI

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    The lecture below, provided in video and text, was originally held at a conference in South Korea held by Business Sweden. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today’s presentation titled “Traveling Fast on the Bumpy Road of AI.” My name is Carl Heath, and I am a senior researcher at RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden.…

  • Time for braces and belts – how we strengthen public discourse together

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    Svensk version: Dags för hängslen och livrem – så stärker vi opinionsbildningen i samhället What would our democracy look like without journalism? There is no doubt that journalism has a crucial role in democracy. Journalism has an important role in holding power accountable in society. Journalists and media outlets are those who usually provide us…

  • Shaping Digital Public Space

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    This text aims to describe possible ways forward after having been bound to digital platforms for over a decade. For this text to do its justice, I hope you read the first part, which describes the platform society of the last decade and how it developed to today. It probably makes this text easier to…

  • The Digital Public Space – the era of platforms

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    In recent years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about the digitalisation of society and in what ways the digital places we find ourselves in affect the way we live our lives and shape our societies. My thoughts with this text are to briefly describe the last decade’s platform society and how it…