#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Some #100hardtruths of the Internet

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet.

What is the “real” internet? It is hard to see and thus hard to say. Is the internet the corporate overlay where the vast majority of us play? The protocols, controls and networks that underwrite this? The governments, corporations, and tech companies that own and write it? The deep web that sits below all that? (From #100hardtruth #1: the real internet is fake)

Contents of this path:

  1. My Pledge
  2. #1: the real internet is a fake
  3. #2: the fake news is very real
  4. #4: the internet is built on deceptions
  5. #5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web’s infrastructure
  6. #6: today’s fixes to fake news are bogus
  7. #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy
  8. #9: YouTube is less platform than emerging internet nation-state
  9. #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material results
  10. #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information
  11. #33: speed matters; there is safety in the slow
  12. 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50
  13. #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithms
  14. #55, choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive
  15. #58, choose to know, name, and share your own internet truths (an invitation)
  16. #67, watch those who are monetizing their watching from the shadows
  17. #75, no time for fools
  18. #80, outlast virality
  19. #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews
  20. #89, ten (more!) superhardtruths about #100hardtruths (certainly not) needed
  21. #93, citation is not enough
  22. #96, make manifest the contingency of the social