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swodinsky I dunno... I don't think it really started *until* Cambridge Analytica. I think majority of coverage until then was still overwhelmingly lacking in criticism. In some ways I think it was impossible to talk about how capitalism and tech make a poisoned brew until post-2007 crisis.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky And everyone was stupidly gushingly positive over tech during the Arab Spring, so it would have been after that. I'm just trying to think about it and other than C.A. I can't think of a mainstream article that really made the shift before then.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky I wouldn't call it mainstream, but if I was to put a finger on the Big Shifting Point I'd say it was The Internet With A Human Face - idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm Along w/reactions to Google Glass. Which also came out around the same time as the Silicon Valley TV show...On twitter.com
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swodinsky So... something happened around 2013/2014... but I can't put my finger on it. I suspect it was part the flash crash and part the realization that we're going to never really recover from the 2007 economic crisis but seeing that tech companies were still exploding with cash.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky Maybe the Boston Marathon bombing and how Reddit screwed up trying to ID the bombers? That might be one of the first times I really remember the whole mainstream media going critical on big tech.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky Our paper of record did note the shift as being around 2017, but I suspect they were a little late to the game: nytimes.com/2017/10/12/technology/tech-giants-threats.htmlPermalink On twitter.com
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