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Posts Tagged: Political Economu of Social Networks: Arts & Practice

Benjamin Grosser – Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 21, 2013

During the last session of Unlike Us #3 on the 22th of March, the focus turned to the relevant role of art in providing a critical response to the socio-political implications of social media monopolies and their centralized software. In this context, new media artist Benjamin Grosser introduced the Demetricator: a free web browser extension [...]

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