Google is threatening to pull out of China based on a recent attack by amateurs. It seems like amateurs have a lot more luck hacking these big nodes, given the story we read about mafiaboy.
Read more »Privacy, Civil Liberties Groups Sound Alarm over Expanded Role for National Security Agency in Cyber Security
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The Obama administration has declassified part of its plan to bolster cyber security, which calls for greater cooperation between private companies and the National Security Agency.
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Public Spaces Online
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I thought that this was an interesting article about the need for public spaces online that exist without interest groups or corporations behind them.
Read more »Cashing in on Internet Censorship
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Where governments pose restrictions, companies are finding ways to help people circumvent them. Apparently, business is booming for people wanting to use firewalls to get around their countries censorship. Even when the blocks get blocked, new ways continue to pop up.
Read more »Google Buzz: Economic Surveillance – Buzz Off! The Problem of Online Surveillance and the Need for an Alternative Internet
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Online advertising presents certain realities as important to users and leaves out those realities that are non-corporate in character or that are produced by actors that do not have enough capital in order to purchase online advertisements. An online advertising monopoly therefore advances one-dimensional views of reality.
Read more »Google v Facebook. This time it’s personal
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Google wants a piece of the networking now! This talks about the ways google is trying to catch up with all the mobile traffic facebook gets, and wants to incorporate the networking aspect into it. Google may be the next 'social networking' phase of the future.
Read more »Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop [video]
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A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.
Read more »Video games = Devolution????
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This article questions the results of computers on the worlds youth as well as the baby boomers attempt to reject it.
Read more »Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier [Frontline documentary]
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Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained?
Read more »The Internet (Addiction) Age [podcast]
http://www.onthemedia.org –
South Koreans were among the first to truly embrace the internet. Perhaps that’s why the country has also become one of the first to treat internet addiction as a psychiatric disorder. Author Douglas Rushkoff traveled to South Korea for an upcoming series that will air on PBS' "Frontline" next week. Rushkoff gives us a glimpse into South Korea's battle against digital obsession.
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