Can AI help democracy? This app hopes it can
A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.
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AI’s threat to elections is not what you think
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting revealed that the rise of generative AI arms saboteurs with many more insidious ways to destabilize elections.
Is TikTok a phantom menace?
Is the US government right to outlaw TikTok because it might share data with a foreign power, or is the security threat overstated? News outlets interviewed Still Water faculty to get a different take on a proposed ban on the popular social media app.
Technology is not neutral. Just ask the artists
How has the boundary between art and non-art shifted in the Internet age, and what does that mean for design, activism, science, and other creative activities? This question is the subject of a Dario Moalli’s fall 2019 interview with Still Water co-directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito in the venerable periodical Hestetika (Aesthetics). The issue …
Whether red or blue, you need net neutrality
In the past year, the Internet has become a place where strong opinions clash. Yet there’s one priority that should matter to both sides: the health of the platform on which these debates take place. The free and open Internet is under attack again by opponents of net neutrality. Whether your political tastes are right, …
Political colors: Jon Ippolito radio interview on advertising’s subliminal messages
Maine Public Radio’s Jennifer Mitchell interviews Jon Ippolito about the proliferation of colors in advertisements for this season’s political candidates, and what subliminal messages these new palettes might contain.
“The Panopticon Is Leaking”: Digital Light in Melbourne
Digital light is both the subject and the medium for Jon Ippolito’s “The Panopticon Is Leaking.” This teleconference presentation at the University of Melbourne traces the historical roots of light as both a metaphor for knowledge and a means of control, and questions the relevance of this legacy for age of Internet phenomena such as …
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