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WHEN: Thursday, April 15, 2:40-4:20 pm WHERE: Senate, Omni Shorham WHAT: What do the much-critiqued ‘classics’ on democracy, civic engagement, the public sphere, and education (by scholars such as Habermas, Dewey, Putnam and others) have to offer critical urban geographers? … Continue reading
According to Apple, jailbreaking your iPhone violates Apple’s license agreement, constitutes copyright infringement – and – is a threat to national security. Meet the new weapon of mass destruction: the hacked iPhone. Just like Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, the iPhone of … Continue reading
According to Wired’s Threat Level blog: Sweden’s Pirate Party won a seat in the European Union Parliament, swept in Sunday amid outrage over a new copyright law and the convictions of the four founders of The Pirate Bay. The party, … Continue reading
Cindi Katz and I just published an article in a special issue of Children, Youth and Environments that focuses on Children and Technological Environments. CYE is an open access journal so you can read our article for free through their … Continue reading
From Chopra & Dexter’s Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, p173: 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 … Continue reading
I was just reading through the Wired article on Facebook’s role in the Burma protests. The marches, organized at a lightning pace by volunteers using Facebook, show the increasing power and reach of a social-networking site originally designed to help … Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS: Space-Time: Affect, Struggle…Everyday Annual Conference of the AAG, Boston, Massachusetts April 15-19, 2008 Organizer: The Spatial Scholars Group of the CUNY Graduate Center
According to the U.S. State Department, democracies can be organized under two general categories, direct and representative. In both forms the public participates in governance yet in a representative democracy elected or appointed officials mediate this participation, whereas in a … Continue reading
This post has been imported from .psych … From Joe Trippi’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Democracy, The Internet and The Overthrow of Everything, p 226: I am convinced that Internet politics and government will be defined by its … Continue reading