blockchain – Still Water Lab

Wrestling with NFTs and TikTok in 2022

NFTs and TikTok, two of the biggest digital trends in recent years, came under fire in 2022. Research by Still Water researchers helped to explain their advantages and vulnerabilities in over a dozen venues, including publications from Wired to Forbes and presentations from London to Shanghai.

Glen Weyl Digital Curation teleconference

Can the next web solve the Internet’s problems?

Connected Knowledge, Digital Curation, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Variable Media / jon / November 12, 2022

Disinformation. Tech monopolies. Surveillance capitalism. For all its benefits, our current Internet is rife with vulnerabilities that can be exploited by the powerful and lead to an erosion of trust among the rest of us. The latest of UMaine’s Digital Curation teleconferences asks whether changes to the fundamental dynamic of the web might help us

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