gregory t. donovan

GTD is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a certificate candidate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He has held fellowships at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Macaulay Honors College, and The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy, and has conducted research at The CUNY New Media Lab, The Center for Human Environments, and with several children’s educational media groups. His research operates at the intersection of Urban Studies, Youth Studies, and Internet Studies, with a focus on understanding the mutual shaping of informational environments and young people’s work, play, civic engagement, and self-expression.

presentation log

04.15.10 ::: Presented Cyberdominance and the Digital Footprint: Young People as Objects of Domination and Subjects of Power in the Cybercityin the Democracy and the Public Sphere In a Web 2.0 World session at the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.

03.13.10 ::: Discussed the MyDigitalFootprint.org and OpenCUNY.org projects with The Norwegian eGovernment Delegation to the USA.

07.18.09 ::: Presented The Medium is the Method: Towards a Topography of Young People's informational Geographies in the Security and Risk session at the 2nd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia.

04.24.09 ::: Presented I Spy Surveillance: Young People's Environmental Consciousness in Cyberspace in the Informed Citizens/Citizen Informers session at the Surveillance Societies: What Price Security? conference, New York.

04.06.09 ::: Delivered Seeing Hacking As Creative Practice guest lecture to Prof. Shaka McGlotten's Critical Perspectives in Media, Society and the Arts course at SUNY Purchase, New York.

03.26.09 ::: Presented Environmental (Un)consciousness in the Advancing Methodology in Youth Geographies session at the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.

03.26.09 ::: Participated in the Geopolitics and Insecurity II: Encountering Productions of State Security panel at the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.

03.20-22.09 ::: Participated in the Surveillance and Empowerment Workshop at Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

10.17.08 ::: Presented Whose Safety, Whose Security? in the Young People session at the Internet Research 9.0 Conference, IT-Universitetet i København, Denmark.

07.25-31.08 ::: Participated in the 2008 European Summer School on Internet Governance in Meissen, Germany.

06.18-19.08 ::: Lectured and co-facilitated workshops for the Nordic Urban Design Association's Summer School 08 in Bergen, Norway. NUDA's brochure for Summer School 08 can be downloaded here, an english version can be found here.

research feed

Hardt and Negri on Property ::August 21, 2010:: From Commonwealth, p7: Property, which is taken to be intrinsic to human thought and action, serves as the regulative ideal of the constitutional state and the rule of law. This is not really a historical foundation but rather an ethical obligation, …
Facebook goes locative ::August 21, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20014068-248.html …
community wiki ::August 16, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: Building stairwell in Bushwick, New York. …
reconfigured space ::August 16, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: Rooftop in Bushwick, New York. …
Secpoint: Lawsuit filed against Warner, Disney, and others ::August 16, 2010:: From the article: “A lawsuit was filed on August 10 against several popular websites supposedly because of secretly spying on surfers, particularly children. The websites include those of Warner Bros. Records, Disney, and Demand Media.”
ACLU Report: Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment‐Protected Activity ::July 8, 2010:: From the report: “Americans have been put under surveillance or harassed by the police for deciding to organize, march, protest, espouse unusual viewpoints, and engage in normal, innocuous behaviors such as writing notes or taking photographs in publ …
Robbins on Political Ecology as Critique ::June 28, 2010:: From Political Ecology, p12-13: As critique, political ecology seeks to expose flaws in dominant approaches to the environment favored by corporate, state, and international authorities, working to demonstrate the undesirable impacts of policies and …
Organic Software ::June 24, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: Archived: 01.07.2008 …
Eco-Friendly "Antivirus" ::June 24, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: …
China’s Green Internet ::June 24, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: Archived: 06.14.2010 …
WSJ: Apple Changes Privacy Policy to Collect Location Data ::June 22, 2010:: From the article: “As it rolls out a new iPhone operating system and an advertising platform, Apple is changing its privacy policy to allow collection and sharing of ‘precise location data,’ including ‘real-time geographic location’ of devices.”
ZDNet: Australian Govt Wants ISPs to Record Browsing History ::June 18, 2010:: From the article: The Australian government has been in discussions with ISPs on implementing a data retention regime that would log and retain customer’s private web browsing history for a certain period of time for law enforcement to access when ne …
Wired: Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent ::June 13, 2010:: From the article: “The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26% from 2008 to 2009 … Not one request for a wiretap was turned down.”
i haz health cervizez? ::June 12, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: On 4/30/2010, after 160 years of operation, St. Vincent’s Hospital was closed. ( www.svcmc.org/body.cfm?id=32 ) According to the Villager ( www.thevillager.com/villager_353/editorial.html ): "The hospital serves t …
creative destruction (3) ::May 31, 2010:: cyberenviro.org posted a photo: …

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