The NY Times reports that when you subscribe to a channel on YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing site publicly broadcasts this fact by putting your user information on that channel's page for anyone to see: Google’s video site lets you…
Read More YouTube: “Broadcast Yourself” means broadcasting your viewing interests for all to see
If you share my appreciation for the ctrl[space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance exhibit and book, linking surveillance, theory, and art, you might be interested in this call for papers for a special issue of Surveillance & Society on "Performance, New Media,…
Buried within this NY Times post about how some Clinton administration verterans on Obama's transition team are surprised at some of the changes within the White House is an interesting discussion about how the reliance on real-time video links between…
Read More Even in the Situation Room, the Medium is the Message
I recently installed a Time Capsule in my home, and in the process must have been assigned a new IP address by my ISP. As a result, all my Google searches are being served from the German version of Google.…
Read More Having IP Problems with Google? Better Accept a Cookie, and Leave your Name at the Door
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School is seeking applicants for 2009-2010 postdoctoral fellowships. The ISP resident fellowships are designed for recent graduates of law or Ph.D. programs who are interested in careers in teaching and public service…
Read More Position Announcement: Yale Information Society Project Fellowships
Information is leverage. Information is power. Information is Maltego. These are the catch-phrases for a South African company that recently released an affordable, user-friendly data mining tool called Maltego, bringing powerful data-mining technology to the masses. While targeted mostly to…
Google recently launched SearchWiki, allowing users logged into their Google Account to customize their search results by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Google states this is an effort to improve user experience, and I'm sure some will…
Society is approaching a turning point that could well determine the future of privacy. Policy-makers and business leaders soon will make decisions about technology practices that will either ensure that data is used for the benefit of individuals and society,…
http://blip.tv/play/AdmOeIz4Yw Educators often use (or want to use) copyrighted materials from mass media and popular culture in building students’ critical thinking and communication skills. For example, I often have students analyze a particular website or a television ad to identify…
Read More A Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed at the Web 2.0 Summit, and he revealed few key insights into his attitude towards the fact Facebook has spurred an increase in personal information flows online. In short -- and in line with…
Read More Facebook’s Zuckerberg on Increasing the Streams of Personal Information Online
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