Offscreen, Issue 24

Offscreen is an independent print magazine that explores critical perspectives on technology through earnest conversations. As a slow, thoughtful counterbalance to the fast-paced, buzzword-heavy tech coverage online, our publication examines how we shape technology and how technology shapes us.

Each issue is built around six lengthy interviews with creative minds of successful websites, apps and other digital products. We talk to aspiring freelancers and renowned designers and developers, and ask them about their professional and private lives, what inspires and motivates them, and what goes on behind the scenes of some of the Web’s biggest names.

In this issue:

Ali Alkhatib Algorithmic injustice: the expert on human-computer interaction exposes the biases deeply rooted in Big Tech’s AIs.

Jutta Treviranus The inclusive design visionary on why diversity is our greatest asset and inclusion our greatest challenge.

Xiaowei Wang ‘Modernity gone off the rails’: making sense of the intertwined systems connecting Shenzhen and Silicon Valley.

Jillian C. York The free speech writer and activist grapples with the impossible problem of moderating the world’s speech.