Pew’s excellent researchers are keeping me very busy these days. Following on the release of the Digital Footprints report, Pew yesterday released a new report on Teens and Social Media. Certainly of interest to the future-watchers in the crowd. Nicole Ellison and I share our thoughts about the report with Ellen Lee [...]
Mark your calendars, Siva Vaidhyanathan will be visiting UNC in February to deliver the Henderson Lecture. From the SILS website:
Siva Vaidhyanathan will be the featured presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the lecture [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life project has released a new report: Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency. This report examines our relationship with our online information, stuff like our Google results and the information we’ve presented online. There are a number of interesting findings, and to [...]
Says danah:
I am very very very pleased to announce that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is now out in the world and ready for your affection. The purpose of the series is to “examine the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, [...]
I’ve long been skeptical of the Google Toolbar (and most other “toolbars”, for that matter). In utilizing the Google Toolbar and any of the “advanced” settings, you allow Google to track every webpage you visit. The Toolbar has always been a coup for Google – in creating this friendly, helpful tool, they’re able [...]
This afternoon, Facebook issued a mea culpa and reversed its position on Beacon, making it an opt-in system and adding a global opt out. While this reversal does not address user tracking on third-party sites, it is a positive step for privacy and likely front-page news tomorrow.
The Beacon controversy has been particularly interesting to [...]
I had a wonderful time at the Wayne State Symposium: Virtual Citizenship and New Technologies. My thanks go to organizer Kevin Deegan-Krause, Marc Kruman and everyone at WSU’s Center for the Study of Citizenship. What really struck me about the day was how the speakers, of diverse disciplinary backgrounds, presented complimentary takes on [...]
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