Make yourself more interesting at your New Year's Eve party with these...

• Network Neutrality’s Neoliberal Roots and a Conundrum for Media Reform in The International Journal of Communication

•  The Social Construction of Trust in Cryptographic Systems by George Danezis

• 'Trustworthy Institutions vs 'Trust-independent Tech' by Yochai Benkler 

• How the Chinese Government is using a "social credit system" to rule its people in The Economist

• Voter Privacy: What You Need to Know About Your Digital Trail During the 2016 Election by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Must humanists learn to code? Or: Should I Replace My Own Carburetor? by Elizabeth Hunter at HASTAC

• Do Algorithms Have a 'White Guy' Problem? by Kate Crawford in the New York Times