The second day of Theorizing the Web was as intense as the first, and many of the presentations discussed potentially-distressing issues, including anti-fat prejudice, online harassment and abuse, police violence against people of colour, suicide, and transmisogyny. This post will only give a short overview of the presentations (and conversations) that happened. My notes from … Continue reading Theorizing the Web Day 2: here comes every body + h8 + lockscreen + algorithms + technologies and pathologies
Tag: digital liberties
Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1
The first day of CLSI 2014 started with Ron Diebert talking about the state of the field and the attempt currently under way to build an inter-disciplinary research community around monitoring Internet openness and rights. Fenwick McKelvey has also put up a reading list of papers mentioned at CLSI 2014.The opening panel looked at Network Measurement and … Continue reading Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1
Security for the real world
I'm kicking myself for missing Observe. Hack. Make. - it sounds like it was an amazing event that brought together geek and activist communities in a really interesting and valuable way. Coverage coming through on Twitter also suggested that #OHM2013 hosted political discussions that were informed by a more complex political analysis than the ones … Continue reading Security for the real world
New article out: the emergence of the digital liberties movement
My new article is now out on First Monday. This work complements my previous conference paper, which looked at the need to see the Internet and other digital technologies as a contested space which activists must work to protect. The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around online censorship … Continue reading New article out: the emergence of the digital liberties movement
Putting the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement into context
There's been a lot of excitement among digital liberties types about the TPPA recently, as the US IP proposals were leaked last week. There's an excellent analysis by Kim Weatherall over at LawFont, more analysis over at techdirt, and some opposition starting up by groups like the Pirate Party and EFA. Most of these activists … Continue reading Putting the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement into context
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