<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Colleagues:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you all know, Geert Lovink is an intrepid critic, theorist, and media activist.</div><div class="">But do you know he makes music about the digital, too, albeit more humbly … </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope you will take a listen: <a href="https://shows.acast.com/we-need-gentle-truths-for-now/episodes/tame-and-disarm-dangerous-algorithms" class="">https://shows.acast.com/we-need-gentle-truths-for-now/episodes/tame-and-disarm-dangerous-algorithms</a>.</div><div class="">And if you like it, tune into more episodes wherever you listen to podcasst. </div><div class="">We Need Genle Truths For Now engages in radical digital
media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry,
creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of
Covid-19.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For this episode, we consider hardtruth #53; “<a href="https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/53-tame-and-disarm-dangerous-algorithms" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">tame and disarm dangerous algorithms</a>.” It was written by <a href="https://networkcultures.org/geert/biography/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Geert Lovink</a>,
a media theorist from the Institute of Network Cultures in the
Netherlands. He reads his writing for my online primer on digital media
literacy where <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>he refers to the work of mathematician <a href="https://mathbabe.org/contact/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Cathy O'Neill</a> and a <a href="https://clalliance.org/blog/media-literacy-backfire/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">series of questions about the viability of media literacy</a> and fake news being raised at that time. Then, we hear from Professor <a href="https://jwernimont.com/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Jacqueline Wernimont,</a>
Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Engagement &
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
Dartmouth College. At a <a href="http://fakenews-poetry.org/dartmouth.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Fake News Poetry Workshop in 2018</a><strong class=""> </strong>she
fed a bot some words of decency. Programmed to help us better
understand the algorthmic stupidity of AI by project <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> collaborator, Dr. <a href="https://www.kylebooten.me/about.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Kyle Booten</a>, the words of Buddhist monk and peace activist <a href="https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Thich Nhat Hanh</a>; <a href="https://www.joyharjo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">Joy Harjo</a>, the first Native American national poet laureate; and the feminist digital pedagogy collective, <a href="https://open.acast.com/shows/5ebaf214613f0c1c8763ac10/episodes/FemTechNet.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">FemTechNet </a> allowed for poetry from which we have all learned:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Voice is perfect<br class=""><p class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>RESOLVE is now conflict, (and)</p><p class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Disappearance is peace.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Thanks for your attention,</p></div><div class="">Alex Juhasz, Film Dept.</div><div class="">Brooklyn College, CUNY</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>