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young people: victims, criminals… red herring

While reading Walter Lippmann's "A Preface to Politics" my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring -- a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) -- is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both "pest" and "benefit," ...

Friedrich Engels - Dialectics of Nature

"It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought." :: sent wirelessly via blackberry

to catch a predator

Back in 2002, a school system in Tennessee paid Edutech Inc. a reported $131,590 to install CCTV surveillance cameras in its 7 schools. In at least one of these schools, the cameras were installed in the locker rooms. The recordings of 10-14 year-old boys and girls, which were produced ...

I am cow, not machine.

poster observed on east 9th street, NYC :: sent wirelessly via blackberry

a reading list: exploring theory and practice

Embracing the so called 'cybercity' as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin ...

a research blog: open source, open process.

This research blog has been setup to assist me in preparing for my second doctoral exam. This blog will hopefully afford me a space where the scholarly content of my reading list can interact with popular culture as well as my thoughts and experiences. In addition, this blog will help ...




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goodbye learning, hello workforce training

Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project: Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines. According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children's ...
May 4th 2008
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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter's (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software: 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 began with a historical note on hacking: ...

“what they want is an automatic feed”

Another sign of growing state interest in the semantic web… According to a recent article in the washington post, "the FBI has created a network of links between the nation's largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico" as part of their Digital Collection System (also ...

(young) person of interest

What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer ...

information assimilation and the life of the child

From John Dewey's "The School and Society," pp100: It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from the standpoint of the relation they bear to the life ...