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This article, by Erika Morphy, brings a very interesting characteristic of the internet to light: it wants to take over everything. No, not in the destroy the world kind of way, but it wants to take over other media functions … Continue reading →

After reading the article “Thanks to Decades-Old Law, Your E-mail is Far From Private“, I started thinking (once again) about privacy issues and the themes found in Little Brother. One of the scariest things is that the majority of Americans … Continue reading →

Scene: A School in a metropolitan area that is highly industrialized. It’s mid-afternoon with a traffic jam outside the school.   Marcus gets out of school and runs into Zeb. Zeb is dressed as the typical homeless person, with shoes … Continue reading →

After finishing Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother  all I can say is wow. Apart from the storyline, which I loved, it also brought up some important issues that are important to recognize in society today. The obvious issues are freedom in … Continue reading →

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and activist who was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that defended freedoms related to technology, law, policies, and standards. His book, Little Brother, is a … Continue reading →

The article The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions is an interesting article that helps explain the role that social media (Twitter specifically) played in the Arab Spring and how it became an invaluable … Continue reading →

The excerpt from This Machine Kills Secretsprovides an interesting view into Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s attempts to create a truly anonymous version of WikiLeaks. It was written by Andy Greenberg, who is a technology, privacy, and information security reporter who has a … Continue reading →

When it comes to writing geared towards online publication, I never knew that I would have to so dramatically alter my style to conform to the demands that the online world wants. The article “Writing Style for Print vs. Web” … Continue reading →

The article “Wikileaks and the Unmasking of the Global System” provides an interesting insight as to how Wikileaks and social media started worldwide revolutions and how those movements evolved. Wikileaks is described as a non-profit organization that specializes in leaking … Continue reading →

Henry Jenkins is currently the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at USC. However, the article was written during the time he spent at MIT, where he was the  director of the Comparative Media Studies Program. Some of the main … Continue reading →