{"621643":{"#nid":"621643","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Breaking Up Facebook Isn\u0027t Enough","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article entitled \u0026ldquo;Breaking Up Facebook Isn\u0026#39;t Enough\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EBogost was interviewed on the same topic for\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/press-play-with-madeleine-brand\/democrat-pete-buttigieg-on-why-californians-should-vote-for-him\/what-would-it-look-like-to-break-up-facebook\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/press-play-with-madeleine-brand\/democrat-pete-buttigieg-on-why-californians-should-vote-for-him\/what-would-it-look-like-to-break-up-facebook\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EKCRW\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/shows\/press-play-with-madeleine-brand\/democrat-pete-buttigieg-on-why-californians-should-vote-for-him\/what-would-it-look-like-to-break-up-facebook\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn an explosive opinion piece published today in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E, Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg\u0026rsquo;s former Harvard roommate, called for the government to break up the social-media company. \u0026ldquo;I haven\u0026rsquo;t worked at the company in a decade,\u0026rdquo; Hughes wrote, \u0026ldquo;But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s a nice gesture, and Hughes, now a co-founder of a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/economicsecurityproject.org\/who-we-are\/\u0022\u003Ebasic-income collective\u003C\/a\u003E, puts forth some worthy ideas that tech entrepreneurs, even lapsed ones, rarely embrace. But the gesture is still more rhetorical than actionable, and it doesn\u0026rsquo;t go nearly far enough into specifics about how to dismantle a company he calls a dangerous monopoly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/05\/chris-hughess-call-break-facebook-isnt-enough\/589138\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-05-13 19:10:19","changed_gmt":"2019-05-13 19:33:49","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/05\/chris-hughess-call-break-facebook-isnt-enough\/589138\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=2iLPi4HX"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"11789","name":"The Atlantic"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}