Local Impact, Praxis, and Digital Overwhelm
Karen Costa asked a great question on LinkedIn this week that has had me thinking about how we balance all the information that is out there, but also what she is expressing which is the feel that maybe we are adding to digital noise. I really do believe that not saying anything because you don't want to contribute to the noise is probably exactly what the systems want us to do. Especially in a time of silencing folk from marginalized and multi-marginalized spaces. But I also know that the algorithms also do their magic sorcery to make what seems like noise either be more common in our feeds and spaces, no matter how well we try to curate information and connections. I know that I have experienced lately a feel that LinkedIn is probably suppressing my posts both in terms of blog posts and in terms of my podcast posts. I have some ideas as to why that is, but also I know that as a Canadian this is one of those things that often happens in HigherEd. The Canadian voices are muted and...