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Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ
From Apophenia

Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal posted excerpts from a debate between me, Stewart Baker, Jeff Jarvis, and Chris Soghoian on privacy. In preparation for...

Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook
From Apophenia

Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook

Announcing new journal article: “Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection...

The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
From Apophenia

The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric

We all know that teen bullying – both online and offline – has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer’s suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay....

Six Provocations for Big Data
From Apophenia

Six Provocations for Big Data

The era of “Big Data” has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others...

Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
From Apophenia

Guilt Through Algorithmic Association

You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google...

Exciting News: Me @ Microsoft Research + New York University
From Apophenia

Exciting News: Me @ Microsoft Research + New York University

When I was finishing my PhD and starting to think about post-school plans, I made a list of my favorite university departments. At the top of the list was New York...

I do not speak for my employer.
From Apophenia

I do not speak for my employer.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when people imply that when I make arguments, I’m speaking on behalf of Microsoft. Anyone who knows me knows that my opinions...

Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs)
From Apophenia

Designing for Social Norms (or How Not to Create Angry Mobs)

In his seminal book “Code”, Larry Lessig argued that social systems are regulated by four forces: 1) the market; 2) the law; 3) social norms; and 4) architecture...

From Apophenia

Everyone’s abuzz with the “nymwars,” mostly in response to Google Plus’ decision to enforce its “real names” policy. At first, Google Plus went on a deleting spree...

The Unintended Consequences of Obsessing Over Consequences (or why to support youth risk-taking)
From Apophenia

The Unintended Consequences of Obsessing Over Consequences (or why to support youth risk-taking)

Developmental psychologists love to remind us that the frontal lobe isn’t fully developed until humans are in their mid-20s. The prefrontal cortex is responsible...

How to Take an Email Sabbatical
From Apophenia

How to Take an Email Sabbatical

It’s summer time and many folks are heading off to vacation and fretting about coming back to overloaded inboxes. Folks keep asking me about my email sabbaticals...

From Apophenia

In a cultural context where Congressman Anthony Weiner foolishly published salacious content on Twitter, it’s hard to ignore sexting as a cultural phenomenon....

From Apophenia

Our contemporary ideas about privacy are often shaped by legal discourse that emphasizes the notion of “individual harm.” Furthermore, when we think about privacy...

Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization
From Apophenia

Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization

In this month’s “Rolling Stone,” the magazine published an article called “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire”. The article tells the story of a 14-year...

How Teens Understand Privacy
From Apophenia

How Teens Understand Privacy

In the fall, Alice Marwick and I went into the field to understand teens’ privacy attitudes and practices. We’ve blogged some of our thinking since then but we’re...

A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space
From Apophenia

A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space

Yesterday, I threw a public hissy fit when I found out that Tumblr’s customer service had acted on a trademark request from a company called Zephoria who had written...

Tumblr disappeared me
From Apophenia

Tumblr disappeared me

People wonder why I have control issues. I refuse to use third party email services because I’m terrified of being locked out of my account (as I was when Yahoo...

How Can We Help Miguel?
From Apophenia

How Can We Help Miguel?

[Written for DML Central. More comments there.] One of the hardest parts of doing fieldwork is hearing difficult, nuanced stories that break my heart. The more...

The Politics of Queering Anything
From Apophenia

The Politics of Queering Anything

Sitting at an academic conference years ago, I was struck by the marginalization of various voices under the guise of inclusion. There were queer panels and race...

Tweeting teens can handle public life
From Apophenia

Tweeting teens can handle public life

Alice Marwick and I co-authored this piece for The Guardian. The Press Complaints Commission in the UK has now ruled that there is no “reasonable expectation” of...
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