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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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Big Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
Scott Golder recently wrote blog post at Cloudera entitled “Scaling Social Science with Hadoop” where he accounts for “how social scientists are using large scale...
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Speaking about Privacy and Publicity
Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at SXSW to over 5000 people (OMG, that room was huuuuuuuge). My talk was about privacy and publicity and I spent a lot of...
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Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape.
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ChatRoulette by Sarita Yardi
Sarita Yardi has been doing a lot of thinking about ChatRoulette these days and I wanted to share a short essay she wrote to explain ChatRoulette to the uninitiated...
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ChatRoulette, from my perspective
I’ve been following ChatRoulette for a while now but haven’t been comfortable talking about it publicly. For one, it’s a hugely controversial site, one that is...
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Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed...
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Public by Default, Private when Necessary
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With...
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Whose Voice do you Hear? Gender Issues and Success
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often...
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Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last...
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Sociality Is Learning
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. As adults...
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Spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... From my Perspective
Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation...
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Call for Descriptions: Online Safety Programs
The Risky Behaviors and Online Safety track of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University...
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Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention
I prepared a new talk today for Web2.0 Expo that I wanted to share with you: "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"...
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
I am delighted to announce that "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media" is now in the wild and available! This book...
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Choosing the Right Grad School
Lately, I've been getting all sorts of emails from folks applying to grad school who are seeking advice. I noticed that I was starting to say the same thing over...
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Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and...
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