#PredatoryDesign
“ decolonial ethics is essentially against a universalist project… … and finds an alternative in pluralism, pluriversal ethics and local designs.”

#Decolonising #HigherEd #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice #PublicInterestTech #CritDigPed #EdChat
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#disembodiment

“make people forget not just where they are or what they've been doing but even their own bodies...“

#predatorydesign #designjustice #gaming #gambling
#publicinteresttech #civictech
#trust #technology #5IR
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Digital Neocolonialism

“the use of information technology and the internet by hegemonic powers as a means of indirect control or influence over a marginalized group or country”

#Decolonising #HigherEd #EdChat #EdTech #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice #AIethics
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“Perhaps the pandemic has meant using or supporting tools—#eproctoring, #plagiarism #tracking, #LearningAnalytics —that we know to be harmful or easily weaponized.”

#EdTech #FemEdTech #PredatoryDesign #PublicInterestTech #UnethicalDesign #DesignJustice
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#soundscape of #mindlessness and #distraction

“the reinforcement will be "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding." Just a sort of low, in the key of C, if you really win, "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding."... this is thought to be harmonious...”

#predatorydesign #designjustice #civictech
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“AI systems should be used in ways that promote #equity between different groups of learners and not in ways that discriminate against any group of learners”

#Decolonising #EthicalAI #EdChat #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice #HigherEd #ArtificialIntelligence
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI should be used to increase the level of control that learners have over their learning and development”

#Decolonising #EthicalAI #EdChat #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice #HigherEd #ArtificialIntelligence #StudentsAsPartners #LearnerFacingAnalytics #SpotifyUnwrapped
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Pluriversality

“a world in which multiple cosmovisions, worldviews, practices and livelihoods co-exist”

#Decolonising #HigherEd #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“… and resists adding additional burdens like requiring #cameras to be on in the homespace or using #surveillance tools like e-#proctoring and and #analytics to track & punish behaviour.”

#Surveillance #PredatoryDesign #UnethicalDesign #BigData #DesignJustice #FmeEdTech
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Brimo on #EdFlix ––
More options beyond #MOOC and #onlinedegree
Learning isn't always comfortable

Should we call the 5 min. video lesson an "education"
#TLDR problems

Great #predatorydesign question!
#want #candy
#need #apple

#academicchatter #highered
#edtech #femedtech
September 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
2 - Habituation

The same technology is rolled out, people become familiar with it and become less concerned

e.g. @Google IO (2018) #AI assistant

(c. 0:28-0:57)

#PublicInterestTech #DesignJustice #PredatoryDesign #BigTech
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September 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
3 - Adaption

The problematic technology is being used

e.g. @DescriptApp

4 - Redirection

Instead of thinking about the problematic issues, think about all the pros

#PublicInterestTech #DesignJustice #PredatoryDesign #BigTech
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September 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“The #carpet is drawing them into the #gaming areas...never having right angles ... That's the last thing we want you to do when you're in a casino, is make conscious #decisions

#screentime #selfcontrol #design #designjustice #publicinteresttech #curving #predatorydesign
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“They're #curating what I'm seeing,
they're #amplifying content,
they're doing it in order to keep our eyes on the screen...
And they're doing that in order to sell ads.“
#predatorydesign #publicinteresttech #socialmedia #attentioneconomy #technogenesis
September 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1 - Incursion

When the technologies are first introduced and people freak out

e.g. @Adobe Audio Manipulator (2016) - with @JordanPeele

(c. 3:24-4:00)

#PublicInterestTech #DesignJustice #PredatoryDesign #BigTech #DigitalRights
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September 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“Continuous #gaming #productivity ... like optimizing for maximum #mindlessness ... you want people to sit down because your new profit logic is called time on device... consumer #fatigue

#predatorydesign #publicinteresttech #civictech #designjustice
#trust #technology #5IR
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“The role of universities is crucial… creating learning spaces that not only identify the harms caused by algorithmic decision making and the systemic issues of racism and colonialism in the use of digital technologies…”

#Decolonising #EthicalAI #EdTech #PredatoryDesign
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Recommendation #2

“nurturing practices of ethical solidarity towards those who suffer the negative impacts of AI”

#Decolonising #EthicalAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DesignJustice #PedagogyOfCare
#PredatoryDesign
September 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#DecolonisingAI

“a process of breaking down the systems of #oppression that arose with #colonialism and have led to present injustices that AI threatens to perpetuate or exacerbate”

#Decolonising #CritDigPed #EdTech #PredatoryDesign #EdChat
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“makes you feel like you are in your own secluded, private cocoon... make these little caves, so nooks, crannies, corners, these are the highest earning slot machines... ‘protected sanctuaries for play’...’Constricted space’ so people can forget themselves”

#predatorydesign
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Decolonial thinking comprises a new #epistemology, #ontology and #ethics that rejects the domination of Western rationality and dualism by any means.”

#decolonising #EdChat #CritDigPed #PredatoryDesign #DesignJustice #ShutDownAcademia #FutureOfLearning #PublicInterestTech
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM