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News of the Week Top 5; April 1, 2015
1. China Uses Unencrypted Websites to Hijack Browsers in GitHub Attack 2. Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It” 3. How C-51 undermines privacy (Lisa M. Austin, […]
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At the end of the Week 12 slides I briefly did a recap of some slides from a keynote presentation I gave to the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Media […]
Class 12 Slides; March 31, 2015
Here they are… jon
News of the Week Top 5; April 25, 2015
1. Bell’s Crull Banned CRTC Chair Blais From CTV News Coverage Following TalkTV Decision 2. The new authoritarianism (Sergi Guriev & Daniel Treisman) 3. Russia Will Deploy “Digital Fingerprinting” to Enforce Copyright Online […]
Class 10 & 11 Slides; March 17 & 24, 2015
Here they are in combined form. jon
Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch
The title tells all about the relevance to the course. A thoughtful piece worth the read: Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 18, 2015
1. It’s time for the FBI to prosecute Gamergate trolls (Brianna Wu) 2. Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners: Company plans to make content generated by […]
Class 9 Slides; March 10, 2015
Here are the slides from Class 9. jon
Class 8 Slides; March 3, 2015
A bit belatedly, here are the slides from our Class 8 contextual survey. jon
News of the Week Top 5; March 11, 2015
1. Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye’s family over Blurred Lines: Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up […]