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cyberenvironmentalism

Cyberenvironmentalism is currently engaged in a process of articulation. I created this neologism as a way to label current and/or future activism that is informed by environmental research and which aims to affect the redistribution of power in the Informational Age. As a more coherent and descriptive definition of cyberenvironmentalism emerges from this process of articulation I will add it to this page.

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May 18th 2008
Tags: CD, privatization, propertization, quote, young people

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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
Tags: citizen power, idea/theme, quote

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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: ...
April 8th 2008
Tags: cyberculture, governance, informationalism, network society, security, subject/topic, surveillance

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“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 ...
April 7th 2008
Tags: cyberculture, idea/theme, informationalism, network society, security, surveillance, young people

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(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 ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: education, informationalism, quote, young people

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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 ...

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