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Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
From Apophenia

Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age

Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Today, it gives...

Seeking: Research Assistant/Intern for Online Safety Literature Review
From Apophenia

Seeking: Research Assistant/Intern for Online Safety Literature Review

The Youth Policy Working Group at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is looking for a research assistant intern to help update the Literature Review...

Seeking: Technical Research Assistant for Adhoc Tasks at MSR
From Apophenia

Seeking: Technical Research Assistant for Adhoc Tasks at MSR

Microsoft Research New England is seeking an undergraduate research assistant to help out with assorted tasks for 10-20 hours/week to assist Dr. danah boyd, a social...

accessible speaking events for the fall
From Apophenia

accessible speaking events for the fall

This fall is chock full of me blabbing on and on so I wanted to share some events that are publicly accessible. They're intended for different audiences and in...

Sometimes I Feel Like a Bitch
From Apophenia

Sometimes I Feel Like a Bitch

For the most part, I'm a fuzzy lovable energetic creature (or at least I like to think so). But new technologies combined with information overload sometimes bring...

Vacation, Vacation, Vaaaay-kaaaay-shun! (offline till Sep 8)
From Apophenia

Vacation, Vacation, Vaaaay-kaaaay-shun! (offline till Sep 8)

This is the time when all of the crazy people run off to the desert to "survive" with tons of art, fake fur, and countless supplies. Burning Man of course. Normally...

am I an academic?
From Apophenia

am I an academic?

academia (n.): The academic world or community; scholastic life. academic (n.): 1. An ancient philosopher of the Academy. 2. A member of a college or university...

Some Thoughts on Technophilia
From Apophenia

Some Thoughts on Technophilia

The New Media Consortium is hosting a Symposium for the Future October 27-29. I was asked to write a few thoughts that might provoke conversation in preparation...

Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
From Apophenia

Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7...

Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?
From Apophenia

Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?

Yesterday, Mashable reported Nielsen's latest Twitter numbers with the headline Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. This gained traction on Twitter turning into...

help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues
From Apophenia

help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues

I need your help. One of our central conclusions in the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report was that many of the online safety issues require the collective...

Would the real social network please stand up?
From Apophenia

Would the real social network please stand up?

This ideas in this post are based on conversations with Bernie Hogan and should be interpreted as the production of our co-thinking. All too frequently, someone...

Obsessively Recording and Sharing our Vacations
From Apophenia

Obsessively Recording and Sharing our Vacations

At Blogher yesterday, the issue of "addiction" emerged in the keynote. A woman in the audience noted that she twitched for the first day of vacation because she...

I Want my Cyborg Life
From Apophenia

I Want my Cyborg Life

For the last few years, I've been spoiled. I've been surrounded by people who, when asked a question, immediately bring out a digital device and look it up. The...

PDF Talk: "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"
From Apophenia

PDF Talk: "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"

Two years ago this week, I wrote a controversial essay in an attempt to locate divisions that I was seeing play out between MySpace and Facebook. This week, at...

xkcd meets reality
From Apophenia

xkcd meets reality

Earlier this week, xkcd posted a fantastic comic about the apocalypse happening and the dead rising to walk the earth. In the comic, mathematicians scribbled frantically...

Understanding retweeting on Twitter
From Apophenia

Understanding retweeting on Twitter

As we try to work out how Iranian citizens, activists, journalists, new media propagators, and politically conscious folks are using Twitter to converse about the...

Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
From Apophenia

Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

I was talking with a friend of mine today who is a senior at a technology-centered high school in California. Dylan Field and his friends are by no means representative...

Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science
From Apophenia

Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science

"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines...

when teachers and students connect outside school
From Apophenia

when teachers and students connect outside school

In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators...
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