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Script  Black background. No music playing. The rolling title comes up on the screen: Homeland/Remix. And the title begins to fade.  The scene opens in Burning man. Hot desert. Crowds of people. As the screen starts to fade into black … Continue reading →

Cory Doctorow’s success from the novel Little Brother led him to create a sequel called, Homeland. Just like in novel Little Brother, Doctorow offered a free online excerpt for the sequel only allowing the reader to view the first few … Continue reading →

  Cory Doctorow, is a Canadian-British journalist, blogger and science fiction author. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing the copyright laws and a supporter of the Creative Commons organization, and uses the majority of their licenses for his books. … Continue reading →

Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, and, Danah Boyd are all authors of the article called, The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. Lotan is VP of Research and Development … Continue reading →

Andy Greenberg is a regular and teach reporter for Forbes, and the author of This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information.  Greenberg’s main focus is on technology, privacy and information security. Greenberg … Continue reading →

It’s crazy to think that YouTube has only been around for 5 years now. There are thousands to millions of people subscribed and use YouTube everyday. It has become one of the top social media sites today, for people to … Continue reading →

Jane McGonigal is an American game designer who specializes in different reality games and pervasive video gaming.  McGonigal is the Director of Game Research & Development at the Institution for the Future. She also has taught at San Francisco Art … Continue reading →

Danah Boyd author of Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites, is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and is an Assistant Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Boyd’s research focuses on how young teenagers are using … Continue reading →

Andrew Keen author of Digital Vertigo “How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us,” is best-known for his concerns on the current Internet culture and how it is disorienting us as a society. Keen is an Internet … Continue reading →

  Copyright is a concept that is well known amongst our society today. There are so many different regulations and rules adjacent to this issue, that it seems people might know what the overall concept is, but have poor educated … Continue reading →