jordan kraemer phd
@jordanaut.bsky.social
anthropologist of digital tech & urban space; Data & Society affiliate; she/they.
book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/
www.jordankraemer.com
book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/
www.jordankraemer.com
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Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society November 13, 2025, 10-11am ET online As technology and the tech industry evolve, civil society is struggling to address the unintended consequences of change, including tools that can be used to erode democracy, amplify bias, and accelerate hateful ideologies. Timely, accessible findings are necessary to […]
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This should be an opportunity to build public platforms grounded in data privacy, user control, community moderation, portability, and interoperability. They must be designed by and with the communities that use them, to support organizing, resilience, and solidarity.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This should be an opportunity to build public platforms grounded in data privacy, user control, community moderation, portability, and interoperability. They must be designed by and with the communities that use them, to support organizing, resilience, and solidarity.
As democracy and civil rights come under attack, local connections and mutual support are even more crucial. But major social media aren’t meeting those needs.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As democracy and civil rights come under attack, local connections and mutual support are even more crucial. But major social media aren’t meeting those needs.
Meanwhile, newer platforms like TikTok aren’t based around peer social connection in the same way. Users sharing is no longer the point; engagement is.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Meanwhile, newer platforms like TikTok aren’t based around peer social connection in the same way. Users sharing is no longer the point; engagement is.
After 2016, Facebook downranked political content, and shifted to features for local groups. Such spaces have become central to many neighborhoods & communities, especially with the decline of local news media.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
After 2016, Facebook downranked political content, and shifted to features for local groups. Such spaces have become central to many neighborhoods & communities, especially with the decline of local news media.
When Facebook changed its algorithm & features starting in 2013 to prioritize news content, more people began reading and sharing news there (& on other platforms). More political content, combined with incentivizing engagement, made it easier to inflame divisions and spread extremism and disinfo.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
When Facebook changed its algorithm & features starting in 2013 to prioritize news content, more people began reading and sharing news there (& on other platforms). More political content, combined with incentivizing engagement, made it easier to inflame divisions and spread extremism and disinfo.
We’ve reached the height of their ad-based business model: serve content, collect data about users, sell that data to advertisers. Algorithmic systems have remade “social” media into individualized feeds that spread hate and false information, rather than supporting social movements or communities.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We’ve reached the height of their ad-based business model: serve content, collect data about users, sell that data to advertisers. Algorithmic systems have remade “social” media into individualized feeds that spread hate and false information, rather than supporting social movements or communities.
After nearly two decades, social media are not contributing to the public good, and mostly benefit their shareholders or billionaire owners. They have abandoned much of their potential to create community through peer networks.
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
After nearly two decades, social media are not contributing to the public good, and mostly benefit their shareholders or billionaire owners. They have abandoned much of their potential to create community through peer networks.
But even as these tactics supported informal workarounds at the margins, they didn’t change the broader dynamics that make some places more peripheral than others.
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
But even as these tactics supported informal workarounds at the margins, they didn’t change the broader dynamics that make some places more peripheral than others.
“Yet young people in this emerging middle class found ways to manage infrastructural unevenness and respond to dominant orderings of space through informal tactics that often enabled participation in cosmopolitan worlds.”
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Yet young people in this emerging middle class found ways to manage infrastructural unevenness and respond to dominant orderings of space through informal tactics that often enabled participation in cosmopolitan worlds.”