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Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney Jolynna Sinanan Jolynna Sinanan, University of Sydney So far, that conversation has been "all about the technology, according to Jolynna Sinanan, a digital ethnographer at the University of Sydney in Australia, "whereas it should be the other way around." The internet and social media have only become widely used in the past decade or so, meaning we're just beginning to establish norms around how people should or shouldn't behave online. Instead, she said, we should be asking "what does being a person in a community mean?" In Trinidad, where Sinanan has s...

11 experts explain how our digital world is fueling polarization Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Tech companies built social media networks to connect us and search engines to give us better information about the world, yet Americans are becoming more divided than ever. The tech industry isn't entirely to blame for polarization, but there are influential economic, psychological, technological, and political forces that explain why it has played such a significant role. Business Insider asked 11 experts on everything from conspiracies to digital ethnography to psyc...