outtake: public wi-fi & nola

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on August 8, 2008 at 5:12 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

The following is an outtake from an article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state. Once/if the final article is published, I’ll post a link to it here. In the meantime, consider this a “teaser.”
These shifts, and […]

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goodbye learning, hello workforce training

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on May 18, 2008 at 4:15 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:

Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows available on the machines.
According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children’s laptops as ideal vehicles for […]

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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on May 4, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter’s (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software:

Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: the significance of hacking should […]

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“what they want is an automatic feed”

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on April 8, 2008 at 6:29 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

Another sign of growing state interest in the semantic web… According to a recent article in the washington post, “the FBI has created a network of links between the nation’s largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico” as part of their Digital Collection System (also called “The Digital Collection System […]

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(young) person of interest

by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on April 7, 2008 at 5:34 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer a “Typical Semantic Graph” which […]

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