Ruth Coustick-DealApproach with caution: Crucial questions for the charity sector ChatGPT hypeBefore you do anything to your strategy, let’s be curious about what this new technology is, how it got made, and who is behind it.Jun 1, 2023Jun 1, 2023
Ruth Coustick-DealPandemic Comforts for Hope & JoyThe last two years I’ve felt like someone walking on the edge of a precipice. But there’s some powerful art that kept me on the ground.Jul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
Ruth Coustick-DealPaying to surveill: the new neighbourhood watchThe growth of personal surveillance devices is changing the power dynamics of who watches who. Now we spend money to spread fear.Dec 14, 2019Dec 14, 2019
Ruth Coustick-DealThoughts on Reframing Disability summitI attended a thought-provoking event on Reframing Disability organised by the Media Trust on Monday last week. The focus of the event was…Nov 15, 2019Nov 15, 2019
Ruth Coustick-DealSecurity Labour: The work of survivingWhen it comes to staying safe online, the work that marginalised people do to stay safe is undervalued, even by the security sector.Mar 23, 2019Mar 23, 2019
Ruth Coustick-DealPride Month: YouTube is demonetising LGBTQ+ videos and harming careers.In time for Pride month, YouTube’s homophobia and transphobia in its content policies has come back into public attention. Several…Jun 12, 2018Jun 12, 2018
Ruth Coustick-DealThe NGO sector needs to challenge a culture of charismaWhen it comes to abuse in the charity sector, we seem angrier at the reporting, than the institutional sexism, and rock-star culture.Mar 4, 2018Mar 4, 2018
Ruth Coustick-DealOnline/Offline: Consent is everything.A Scottish CCTV company, marketing new cameras that can lip-read is symbolic of how we’re losing bodiliy autonomy.Nov 6, 2017Nov 6, 2017
Ruth Coustick-DealTrickle-Down Ethics: Why innovation won’t save us.Capitalism has entrenched itself in Western digital rights activism, in the adoption of “start-up” ideology.Sep 25, 2017Sep 25, 2017
Ruth Coustick-DealFacebook has its claws in me and I want out.Facebook’s list of crimes is pretty extensive. Barely a week goes by when I don’t hear of some new action they have taken that causes…Sep 12, 2017Sep 12, 2017
