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Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
By Whitney Burke March 8, 2013 - 10:35am Comments
Navigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era Blog Image Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his apartment days later, he was facing more than $40,000 in fines. Airbnb is not legally obligated to post explicit warnings on its site notifying users of the possible legal... more

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Online Learning and Teaching Writing
By John Jones 09/21/2012 - 7:20am Comments
For whatever reason, discussions of online education are in the air. Cathy Davidson frequently writes about the challenges facing our education system on this blog, and when a consortium of top universities combined to create an online...
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Three Conversations for Parents: Navigating Networked Publics
By danah boyd 09/18/2012 - 1:35pm Comments
Parenting is hard. Many parents find parenting in an era of social media to be confusing, in part because they must advise their children to make sense of spaces that they don't understand themselves. It's easy to be afraid of what's new, but...
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The 'Presence' Project and the 'Be Here Now' Box: Digital Media and Family Attention
By Howard Rheingold 09/17/2012 - 11:40am Comments
Enthusiasts and skeptics agree that digital media are attention magnets. The Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that one in six Americans admitted to bumping into someone or something while texting, and a video from a mall...
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An Apologia for Copying
By Nishant Shah 09/13/2012 - 10:50am Comments
I was on a Google hangout with some friends the other day, and we were talking about the thisness and thatness of life. Conversations (as they always do) veered towards books we were reading and that started a torrent of recommendations and...
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'The Virtual Revolution': Argentina
By Aleks Krotoski 09/11/2012 - 6:50am Comments
I recently returned to the UK from a trip to Argentina. I had been invited to speak about The Virtual Revolution, the television series I presented for BBC2 2010 by the OSDE Foundation, the community arm of the country's largest health care...
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Be.App: Towards Facilitating Curiosity
By monika hardy 09/06/2012 - 11:20am Comments
Many people are talking about (and creating) better ways to do public education. There are amazingly innovative ideas happening. However incredible, they aren't currently equitable; they aren't accessible to all. Imagine if rather than waiting...
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Understanding Digital Civics
By Ethan Zuckerman 09/03/2012 - 1:15pm Comments
Last week, I gave a lecture titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics” at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. I was in South Australia to give another lecture, a joint lecture with Dr. Genevieve Bell of Intel in memory of her friend James...
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Global Transmedia MOOCs
By Howard Rheingold 08/30/2012 - 9:25am Comments
Nearly two years before Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun shook up educational institutions with their massive open online course on artificial intelligence, using videos, blogs, wikis, and online tests, photography educators Jonathan Worth,...
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Expertise, Redefined
By Ben Williamson 08/27/2012 - 9:50am Comments
What makes an “expert”? What makes for “expert knowledge” in the digital age? In today's culture of digital media, new forms of expertise and knowledge seem to be increasingly available, with the result that young people are now being...
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Social Media Discourse: Violence, Olympiads and Our Everyday Life
By Raquel Recuero 08/23/2012 - 2:45pm Comments
All the world's attention was recently focused on the Olympic Games in London. The competition was widely broadcasted by traditional and online media, with an astronomic audience, reaching many countries. Social media became a place for...
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Digital Literacies and Web Literacies: What's the Difference?
By Doug Belshaw 08/20/2012 - 11:55am Comments
I’m currently iterating some work around Web Literacies for the Mozilla Foundation (you can see the latest version of my thinking here). Perhaps the biggest consideration when dealing with so-called ‘New’ Literacies is distinguishing them from...
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Writing Like the Web
By John Jones 08/16/2012 - 7:45am Comments
In my last few posts, I have argued that network writing—that is, writing that mimics the conventions of emerging, online genres—should occupy a larger place in writing instruction. However, it can be challenging to imagine how literacies that...
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How Do We Make Civic Crowdfunding Awesome?
By Ethan Zuckerman 08/13/2012 - 8:20am Comments
Ten people each contribute $100 a month into a pool. They meet once a month and discuss possible projects to support. Each month, they give a grant of $1000 to a project that meets a simple criterion: it’s awesome. That’s the logic behind the...
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Learning from Failure: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part II
By Liz Losh 08/09/2012 - 11:45am Comments
Professor Anne Balsamo has been collaborating with Professor Alexandra Juhasz and a group of more than one hundred feminist scholars to pilot a new kind of online course devoted to feminist dialogues on technology. Balsamo recently left the...
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Bodies in Classrooms: Feminist Dialogues on Technology, Part I
By Liz Losh 08/06/2012 - 3:00pm Comments
Next year, over a hundred feminist scholars are slated to teach a new kind of online course—the first “MDCLE” or “massively distributed collaborative learning experiment”—tentatively titled “Feminist Dialogues on Technology."  Drawing on...
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