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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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why I’m quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it)
Earlier this week, Mendeley was bought by Elsevier. I posted the announcement on Twitter to state that I would be quitting Mendeley. This tweet sparked a conversation...
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Addressing Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Technological Interventions
Two years ago, when I started working on issues related to human trafficking and technology, I was frustrated by how few people recognized the potential of technology...
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thank you SXSW
Last night, I was inducted into the SXSW-Interactive Hall of Fame in a whirlwind awards ceremony. I only had a flash of a moment to reflect so I want to take a...
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Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates. Although headed off to different schools, they...
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Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries
At the ASTD TechKnowledge conference, I was asked to reflect on networked learning and how tomorrow’s workers will challenge today’s organizations. I did some reflecting...
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mourning and public-ness
When I ranted about how the media’s incessant desire to get the story was not allowing the people of Newtown to mourn, I did not expect that I’d be mourning the...
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processing the loss of Aaron Swartz
The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster. I woke up yesterday to find that a friend of mine – Aaron Swartz – had taken his life. My Twitter feed...
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The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series – Eight Papers on The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of eight new of papers in The Kinder & Braver World Project...
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Dear Media, Back The F*** Off Newtown
In late May – or maybe early June – of 1999, I ended up at a rave in a field on the outskirts of Denver. I was driving cross-country and I wasn’t thinking about...
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ICWSM-13, run by Emre Kiciman
I’m pleased to announce that the CFP for ICWSM-13 is now live. In late October, it was announced that Ethan Zuckerman and I were running the conference. Due to...
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Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story (from Wired)
I wrote the following piece for Wired. I’m keeping it here for posterity, but check out the comments over on Wired. Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San...
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omg girls’ bodies are fascinating: embracing the gendered side of quantified self
Ever since I broke my neck as a teenager, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my body. Truth be told, I’d much rather be a cyborg or a brain on a stick. I prize...
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Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
On Tuesday, Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for “criminal mischief” – or “the willful damaging of property” – when she responded to disturbingly...
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Three conversations for parents: navigating networked publics
This post was originally written for A Platform For Good.org, a new site dedicated to creating opportunities for young people and adults to engage with technology...
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“Socially Mediated Publicness”: an open-access issue of JOBEM
I love being a scholar, but one thing that really depresses me about research is that so much of what scholars produce is rendered inaccessible to so many people...
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What Anti-Trafficking Advocates Can Learn from Sex Workers: The Dynamics of Choice, Circumstance, and Coercion
For the last year, I’ve been trying to get my head around different aspects of human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. I’ve been meeting...
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Participatory Culture: What questions do you have?
Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and I have embarked on an interesting project for Polity. Through a series of dialogues, we’re hoping to produce a book that interrogates...
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CFP: public-facing papers on Youth Movements / Youth Organizations
Scholars, researchers, & academics – we need your help!
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Bringing Research to Bear on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors (a.k.a.
I believe that technology can be leveraged to empower people in amazing ways, but I also recognize that it can also be used in deeply disturbing ways. All too often...
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