Category: Technology
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Anonymity: A Destruction of Justice
Introduction Due to the complex structural conditions of the online sphere, such as anonymity, individual online actions may become more disinhibited and less restrained by traditional norms. Thus, meaning that individuals have the ability to abuse this structure in order perform criminal activities. Anonymity is a pinnacle in Internet culture that helps move forward this […]
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How To Code in Python 3 eBook Publication: A Year Later
Just over a year ago, on February 1, 2018, DigitalOcean released the collection of my Creative Commons-licensed Python tutorials as a free and open access eBook, How To Code in Python 3. Since then, the eBook has been downloaded 80,000 times to date and is available directly through DigitalOcean, Google Books and CUNY’s Manifold repository. […]
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Resisting the Machine: Learning a New Method
Resisting the Machine: Learning a New Method Grant Glass, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Prepared for MLA 2019 On December 20th, Congress Passed the First Step Act that included an expansion of the federal safety valve, providing judges with the ability to make an exception to mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders […]
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Laptops Must Find Their Place In The Classroom Before They Can Be Allowed In
Chris Fasce Laptops Must Find Their Place In The Classroom Before They Can Be Allowed In The emergence of laptops in the classroom has become a hot debate in what the best policy is to handle this issue. The amount of distractions caused by laptops is substantially more than that of students […]
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One of the 21st Century’s Greatest Creations. Should They be Allowed in the Classroom?
Are laptops harmless creations that help college students succeed, or are they evil machines out to ruin grades and innocent students’ hopes and dreams? Well, maybe that’s too harsh. In reality, laptops are great tools that give us all the information we could never remember. However, during lectures, they should stay tucked away in students […]
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Why Laptops Should Not be Banned in the Classroom
Since middle school, I used some sort of technology in the classroom, whether it was for a game we were playing in class, a project, or to complete a homework assignment. Some examples of technology that I used in the classroom were phones, tablets, and laptops. I always enjoyed using technology because I thought it […]
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#MyMotherWasAComputer Symposium at William & Mary November 2, 2018: An Overview and Lingering Questions
“My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology” was a one day symposium (November 2, 2018) at William & Mary organized by my professor, Dr. Liz Losh. The day was packed from start to finish with smart conversation, witty one-liners, and open-ended questions, many of which I will point to here. The symposium […]
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Thank you, Mozilla
It has been my great pleasure over the last six years to be on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit Foundation of which the Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary. Mozilla has thanked me for my service publicly–and now I want to say, “Back at you, Mozilla!” I joke that I’m […]
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“Data and You”: MozFest, London, Oct 26-28, 2018
Since 2009, Mozilla has assembled coders, creators, journalists, activists, artists and others who advocate for a healthy Internet each year in London. In 2017, MozFest hosted 2,500 activists, coders, journalists and educators from every continent (except Antarctica). This year, MozFest House (Oct 22-25) and the festival weekend (Oct 26-28) will focus on Data and […]