"Attribution & Evasion" Aarthi Vadde - Humanity + Technology Lecture Series

The Humanity+Technology Lecture Series offers an interdisciplinary conversation about the world we make and what it means. Each event is free, open to the public, and designed to create a dialogue. This talk will be about experiments in authorship and editorship that constitute a backlash against a post-Web 2.0 internet mired in privatization, commercialization, and surveillance. It argues that attribution has become the dominant form of compensation for creative online expression under Web 2.0. Precisely because attribution seems ethical and transparent, it is easy to miss its pernicious effects on public discourse, data protection, and privacy.