{"id":287,"date":"2026-05-05T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:10:00","slug":"discussion-board-from-verbeeks-writing-designing-the-public-sphere-information-technologies-and-the-politics-of-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/2026\/05\/05\/discussion-board-from-verbeeks-writing-designing-the-public-sphere-information-technologies-and-the-politics-of-mediation\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board: From Verbeek&#8217;s writing Designing the Public Sphere: Information Technologies and the Politics of Mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"For Verbeek, technology is a huge factor in how individuals in society reason and react. Facing &#8220;intelligification&#8221;, Verbeek maintains that we must move from external technology assessment to internal technology accompaniment. Businesses need to be regulated because they have data on there users, are making new ai models that are infringing on aspects of life. It should require them to protect and contain their user data and be clear in how that data is used, and stop any kind of malicious use of their product. With the powers of the state diminishing, the people and the users should be the regulators because without users they don\u2019t make money.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Verbeek, technology is a huge factor in how individuals in society reason and react. Facing &#8220;intelligification&#8221;, Verbeek maintains that we must move from external technology assessment to internal technology accompaniment. Businesses need to be regulated because they have data on there users, are making new ai models that are infringing on aspects of life&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/2026\/05\/05\/discussion-board-from-verbeeks-writing-designing-the-public-sphere-information-technologies-and-the-politics-of-mediation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/myzelltownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}