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Who owns the playground?: Urban gamification and spatial politics in Pokémon GO

“Sydney park destroyed as thousands of Pokémon Go players descend” wrote Irish news website TheJournal.ie on the first of August. This is just one example of a situation wherein Niantic’s popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO puts a considerable...
By Stefani Mans on 11/14/16 Comments Off on Who owns the playground?: Urban gamification and spatial politics in Pokémon GO

In The Filter Bubble: How algorithms customize our access to information

‘Mark Zuckerberg promises to do more about the circulation of fake news on Facebook’ Dutch news website nu.nl said on 13 November 2016. This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized lately. The social media network has been...
By Stefani Mans on 11/13/16 Comments Off on In The Filter Bubble: How algorithms customize our access to information