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Teaching on Facebook and content restrictions

Today when I logged into Facebook I got a message letting me know that I was banned from posting any content for the next 24 hours. Another contributor from a group I help to moderate had posted 'inappropriate content' and so all moderators for that group were temporarily locked from posting to Facebook at all. … Continue reading Teaching on Facebook and content restrictions →

Upcoming presentations: Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Early next year I'll be discussing strategies for opposing the TPPA at Linux Conference Australia, in Perth: This presentation suggests a variety of strategies and tactics that the Linux community might adopt when acting on political issues, with the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) being of particular concern at the moment. The TPPA is a … Continue reading Upcoming presentations: Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement →

Upcoming presentation: social movements and big data research

In October Tim and I will be presenting on the methodological underpinnings of our Mapping Movements project at the Compromised Data? colloquium at Ryerson University. Our paper examines some of the problems with big data research on social movements: Social movement research and big data: critiques and alternatives This paper examines the growing use of … Continue reading Upcoming presentation: social movements and big data research →

Opening ‘open’: why I donated to The Ada Initiative

Open technology and open culture is important to me. Free and open source software is vital to my research work, and as a researcher and an educator, I do what I can to support open access to important materials. Open culture and technology help support a more equal society, making key tools and information available … Continue reading Opening ‘open’: why I donated to The Ada Initiative →