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Gregory T. Donovan (CV)
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Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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ACLU: YouAreBeingWatched.US

You ARE being watched, US. Since 9/11 Homeland Security has pumped an enormous amount of money into public surveillance technologies (online and off). Yet, as most recent studies are showing, the presence of this surveillance does nothing to reduce crime or make people more safe. So, what is this surveillance being funded for? To help [...]
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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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(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 a “Typical Semantic Graph” which [...]
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