Category: Internet

  • A Gender and Information Technology Reading List

    A Gender and Information Technology Reading List

    This list comes to us courtesy of Anna Lauren Hoffman (annaeveryday.com and @annaeveryday), an assistant professor at the UW iSchool. As she notes “the list was produced for a large 100-level course (120+ students) on Gender & Information Technology that we run out of the iSchool here at UW. This my first quarter teaching the course […]

  • What Are The Key Properties That Make It Possible for Innovative Institutions To Do What They Do?

      1-After my talk at @GeorgiaTech @IanBogost tweeted this great question: What are the properties of the institutions or programs doing the innovative things you mentioned that are making it possible for them actually to do them rather than just pondering the idea?   While waiting for my ride to @AgnesScott for today’s Founder’s Day keynote, […]

  • Sensationalism in Social Media

          Throughout the decades, technology has significantly advanced to become a fundamental part of human communication, however, within recent years the problem of sensationalization has become an enormous problem among social media sites, and has darkened the media in a way in which violence and negativity has become the main news source in day […]

  • Biased News Media

    In 1959, the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC), created and implemented what was known as the fairness doctrine (Simmons, 1979).  Basically it was a rule that all television and radio broadcasts had to abide by, a rule that made it so if either of those mediums had a segment about one side of a particular topic, […]

  • Can Online Friendships Last?: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Online Community

    Can Online Friendships Last?: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Online Community

    As a child I was always taught to never to talk to strangers, however with the advancement of the Internet, this isn’t the case anymore. Growing up in a digital era, and as a millennial, I started using the Internet at an early age. Because I started using computers when I was young, I started […]

  • “I Know You and I Haven’t Even Met You”: Oversharing on Social Media

    “I know you, and I haven’t even met you”: [Image result for photos of oversharing] Oversharing on Social Media Are you an Over-Sharer? Most people rarely ever realize how much they post on a daily basis and the content of what they actually post. In this new technological age, many individuals have become very consumed […]

  • How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    “In the 1990s the internet emerged as a public communications medium, and there were countless commentaries on its social impacts and implications. It took a series of transformations over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s to turn the internet into a popular form of communication” (Abbate, 1999, 181). Mobile Apps: Then and Now […]

  • Where is Social Media Headed?

    Going back in time, the hit TV Show “iCarly” was a great illustration of where we seem to be headed now in our evolution of social media. The nostalgic children’s show influenced several children to want to engage online in the same way they did using the like of YouTube or by simply uploading videos […]

  • The Cost of Privacy

    The Cost of Privacy

    The Cost of Privacy Michael Trey Blackburn November 9th, 2017  It’s no doubt that with recent advancements to how we live our day-to-day lives that we are truly living in the golden age of technology. What used to take uncertain amounts of time can now be accomplished in a matter of seconds, either from a […]

  • Thinking through the world brain

    Thinking through the world brain

    WHY IT MATTERS WHO OWNS AND GOVERNS OUR GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY If our networked tools for sharing knowledge are free, far reaching, and fast, does it matter who owns and governs them? I’m posting the draft of a chapter of my dissertation on the Humanities Commons in support of the belief that the infrastructure of knowledge production is in fact […]