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I’ll be presenting “iLearn: Space, Time and Social (Re)Production in Young People’s Informational Environments” tomorrow at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle. If you’re attending the AAG, stop on by! Session: Beyond School: Geographies of … Continue reading
> From the article: “Google is working on a mobile app that would allow users to snap pictures of people’s faces in order to access their personal information”
> From the article: “Facebook and 4Chan are nothing more than human behavior manifest digitally, so it’s fitting that Zuckerberg and 4Chan Founder Chris Poole would have different ideas about about the rules that should govern online behavior.”
Technology Loop from Portlandia (h/t Lisa Ashby Brundage): Carrie: Welcome to MiND-Fi Fred: Carrie, What’s that? Carrie: It’s MiND-Fi, I just installed it. It’s like Wi-Fi, but for thoughts. Now, you can let go of all your electronic devices and … Continue reading
> From the article: “The Royal Academy of Engineering said the application of GPS was now so broad, from car sat-navs to the time stamp on financial transactions, that without adequate backup, any disruption could have a major impact.”
> From the site: “AppData is an independent application traffic tracking service of Inside Network, the first company dedicated to providing business information and market research to the Facebook platform and social gaming ecosystem.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 2, 2011:
We are engaged in an information war. During the cold war we did a great job in getting America’s message out. After the Berlin Wall fell we said ‘OK fine, enough of that, we did it, we’re done. ‘ And, unfortunately we’re paying a big price for it. And, our private media can not fill that gap . . .
We are in an information war, and we are losing that war. I’ll be very blunt in my assessment. Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network. The Russians have opened up an English network. I’ve seen it in a few countries and it’s quite instructive . . .
We are in information war and we cannot assume that this youth bulge that exists not just in the middle east but in so many parts of the world really knows much about us. I mean we think they know us and reject us, I would argue the really don’t know very much about who we are. (emphasis added)
From Vice President Al Gore’s remarks to The Superhighway Summit at UCLA on January 11, 1994:
The pressure of competition on the information superhighway will be great — and it will drive continuing advancements in technology, quality and cost. Incidentally, when I first coined the phrase “information superhighway” 15 years ago, I was not prepared for some of the unusual images it would ultimately bring into our language. For example, one businessman made this point I’m making here about competition and the pressure of competition when he told me last week that his company was accelerating its investment in new technology to avoid ending up as “road kill on the information superhighway.” And just this week I received a letter from a group of companies wanting to be allowed to compete, who complained that they were scared of being “parked at the curb” on the information superhighway. (emphasis added)
> From the article: “Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to documents that Goldman Sachs is providing to clients.”
> From the article: “Facebook has raised $500M from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a transaction that values the company at $50B … As part of its deal with Facebook, Goldman is expected to raise as much as $1.5B from investors for Facebook.”
GEMA (Germany’s version of the RIAA) is now demanding that preschools pay corporate giants for the right to sing along. They’re not just talking about sharing music files anymore, now they’re policing preschools for making copies of sheet music for … Continue reading
Evgeny Morozov has an excellent post at Foreign Policy that addresses the competing narratives emerging around WikiLeaks. Namely, WikiLeaks as an internet freedom issue vs WikiLeaks as a national security issue. Discussing these narratives in the context of the pro-WikiLeaks … Continue reading
Big government collaborates with big business to deny service to WikiLeaks, everyday people get organized and deny those big businesses the ability to offer services . . . and a 16 year-old Dutch kid gets arrested? From Bloomberg News: … … Continue reading
Welcome to the informational: where jailbreaking your iPhone is a threat to national security, the global dominance of Goldman Sacks depends on government-based policing of proprietary trading code, and WikiLeaks is a thermonuclear device. From the transcript of Andrew Marr’s … Continue reading
MyDigitalFootprint.org is a participatory action research project focused on the interests and concerns of young people growing up in digital environments. The MyDigitalFootprint.org research project is looking for young people ages 14-19 living in New York City, for both Research … Continue reading