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Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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Monthly Archives: August 2008

army & navy to air force: we want in on Cyber Command

For just a moment — a moment — I saw the headline Air Force Halts Cyber Command Program and thought: great news! Some of you may have noticed the air force’s recent power grab, declaring that cyberspace is theirs to protect in recent TV and web advertisements. You can see their new logo in a [...]
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apple’s long-arm tactics

No one could of seen this one coming (cough). Apple has embedded a remote kill switch in the iPhone’s operating system that allows them to deactivate applications of their choosing — including applications which were knowingly installed by an iPhone’s owner. According to Wired’s Gadget Lab: Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application [...]
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outtake: governing the semantic web

Another outtake from the article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state: In their pursuit of both national and homeland security as well as the creation of new markets, the state and corporations are engaging the free-flowing [...]
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wiretapping – at&t’s new marketing strategy

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but what with article deadlines, ecycolpedia entries, the NUDA Summer School, and Euro-SSIG, I’m just now getting around to it. Back in June, at&t briefly flirted with the idea of using the scandal surrounding their illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens’ domestic and international communications [...]
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outtake: public wi-fi & nola

The following is an outtake from an article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state. Once/if the final article is published, I’ll post a link to it here. In the meantime, consider this a “teaser.” These shifts, [...]
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