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Less than Zero — Backchannel — Medium
A concept well worth reflecting on: when is “free” not neutral? This article goes through the ins and outs of what it really means when carriers exempt certain apps from […]
Weekly Student-Hour: 20 January 2015
Hello, My name is Ryan, and I’m taking the first “student-hour” of the semester (feel free to bring fruit to throw). The topic is going to be: Open Source Licensing […]
Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance – NYTimes.com
How is this for disturbing – hardly the percentage difference between “free” and “not free” countries you might wish for: “Some 75 percent of respondents in countries classified as “free,” […]
News of the Week Top 5; January 14, 2015
1. ‘Anonymous’ Member Calls For Revenge On Terrorists For Charlie Hebdo Massacre 2. Code Is Law: But law is increasingly determining the ethics of code. (Jonathon Penney) 3. Stop sketching, little girl — […]
Class 2 Slides; January 13, 2015
In all their glory 😉
Charlie Hebdo Tragedy
In the syllabus and in last weeks introduction to the course I suggested a living lab model of learning might serve this course rather well. The notion behind that thought was that […]
Important read for Tuesdays class: Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — Backchannel — Medium
Please read the following in preparation for a class collaborative effort this Tuesday where we begin to imagine a “Charter of Digital Rights”: Internet Under Fire Gets New Manifesto — […]
News of the Week Top 5; January 7, 2015
1. Novelists, poets, cartoonists respond to attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris 2. Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom – China, Russia, or the US?: Beijing and Moscow are rightly […]
How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online
How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online. This article will be among the topics for our first class. Issues of […]
The Interview/Sony/Hack: A Message in a Bottle
Our eldest daughter has a phrase she is fond of using on the frequent occasions where my understanding of her cultural touchpoints comes up empty. “It’s a thing, Dad. It […]