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In award-winning journalist, Mathew Ingram’s article, Is the UN the Next Big Threat to Internet Freedom?, he explains how the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an arm of the United Nations, wants very much to take over management of the Internet. One … Continue reading →

In the early days of the Internet, online and offline identities were often kept separate. Anonymity was more commonplace. But today, verifying online identity is an increasingly important consideration as more official business is conducted online. There are many different … Continue reading →

When we go on the Internet, we are like Hansel and Gretel leaving information breadcrumbs—birthdays, financial histories, relationship statuses etc. Who’s collecting these bread crumbs? Advertiser use marketing pitches that use data about an individual’s online activities in order to … Continue reading →

(Marcus and Ange are in the infirmary. He just getting check that he doesn’t have a concussion.)  Marcus: Alright, Ange I-I didn’t want to tell you this, … I was hoping it was just my imagination… Ange: Marcus! What is … Continue reading →

After learning that Darryl is still alive from a former DHS prisoner, Marcus decides to come clean about his secret life to his parents and an investigative reporter. The story is published and the world discovers who M1k3y really is. … Continue reading →

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Doctorow is blogger, journalist, and science fiction author of the novel Little … Continue reading →

Writer for Forbes Magazine, Andy Greenberg is a technology, privacy, and information security reporter and most recently the author of the book This Machine Kills Secrets. In his excerpt from the book, The WikiLeaks Spinoff That Wasn’t: An Exclusive Excerpt … Continue reading →

In a time where many things are done on the internet, what is left for print? Alessandro Ludovico is the editor in chief of Neural, the Italian/English new media culture magazine and writer of the article Revenge of the Print. Ludovico … Continue reading →

In Danah Boyd’s article Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, she discusses MySpace and its effects on youth between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years of age. Danah Boyd is … Continue reading →

In Andrew Keen’s Digital Vertigo (Introduction and Chapter 1), Keen understands and accepts the benefits of technological novelty before cautioning us of the dangers.  Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur  writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is an acclaimed speaker on … Continue reading →