It also struck me that most of the readings for this first week of #INFO287-01 treat AI and algorithms as neutral-to-positive innovations. I’m so used to my corner of the internet that distrusts big corporations’ uses of these technologies, and it’s refreshing to see people look for the good we can make of this changing tech landscape.

On that note, my #INFO287-01 class readings this week included Enis’s (2017) summary of library social media tips, including: most people don’t want to be marketed to! They’re here to have a good time. This resonated with my takeaways from Jones & Harvey, how library social media has to recognize user experiences and become a source of positivity and learning.

It's a brand-new semester, and it's time to take on emerging technologies in the library profession! I've got some articles coming up on the topic of tech in libraries, so keep an eye out.

Libraries need to become visible leaders like never before. The "library [must become] visible [this] is essential to cementing a positive future" (Ojala, 2022). But the social harms caused by the big tech companies "are an intrinsic part of how these companies operate, a natural consequence of the rationality—at heart a colonial rationality now applied within both Global North and Global South, that underlies their business model" (Magalhaes & Couldry, 2021, p. 357)

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Magalhaes, J. C., & Couldry, N. (2021). Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good. International Journal of Communication (Online), 343–363.
Ojala, M. (2022). Contemplating the Future for Libraries and Librarians. Online Searcher, 46(4), 4–4.