internet
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine | The Nation
Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005, it remains one of the central platforms—markets, really—where crowd-based labor is bought and sold. As… Continue reading
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Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few… Continue reading
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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The trouble with Zuckism | PandoDaily
Good engagement on the disconnect between how many people complain about Facebook despite its growing profitability. How do we square Facebook’s data with the complaints we hear about the company — complaints that go far beyond the usual ones about… Continue reading
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Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?
You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that in its current form, the… Continue reading
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Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork
If we are going to stay on top of how the Interweb and its diverse intrusions into our life are in fact the very stuff of Control, it behooves us to never forget how global corporate capitalism–the InterDebtWork–is always after better… Continue reading
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“The Straight Agenda”: an e-toon from thebigslice.org
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The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the age of information overload – YouTube
Acclaimed popular psychologist Richard Wiseman joins celebrated RSA Animate illustrator Andrew Park to unveil new evidence that shows that RSA Animate videos not only entertain, but educate in a surprisingly effective way. via The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the… Continue reading
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Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics | csid
Super interesting. Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something… Continue reading
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Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos | Politics and Law – CNET News
Okay. So this is very different from most of those little rumors that one hears about Facebook or its subsidiaries. This is coming from CNET and is pretty well thought out. I would recommend to folks that use Instagram to… Continue reading
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About Us | Open Culture
I cannot sing the praises of this site enough. Go there and look around good friend of the Ether. What is Open Culture’s Mission? Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web… Continue reading
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New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents
While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what… Continue reading
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Society of Control
CLICK HERE TO READ POSTSCRIPT TO THE SOCIETY OF CONTROL BY Giles Deleuze Society is changing. In fact, society is always changing. From generation to generation, the alterations may sometimes seem slight. At other times, the variations may seem quite… Continue reading
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