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Human Rights and Social Media in India: Blank Noise
On a recent visit to Sarai, a Delhi research think tank housed in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, I met a number of female university students who described participating...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityLibraries as ‘Sponsors of Literacies’: Diving Deep to Expose Narratives & Metanarratives
In my last post “Literacies and Fallacies,” I introduced Deborah Brandt’s conceptual approach of sponsors of literacy that connects individual literacy development to the economic development of literacy. I also shared a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticePepper Spray and Penguins: Analysis of Turkey’s Social Media-fueled Gezi Protests
The Gezi protests took everyone, including the protesters themselves, by surprise. "This wasn’t what I had planned to do in June at all," said a man in his early 30s to me...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipDigital Humanists Should Be Copyright Activists
In a recent blog post for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Ben Alpers argues that iBooks Author is not very well suited for humanities learning. I have written before about problems...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe Ontology of the Web (Why I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Learning Standards)
At the beginning of 2013 the Mozilla Foundation announced its intention to work with the community to create a new learning standard for Web Literacy. I'm delighted to say that we're well...
Category: Digital CitizenshipUsing Social Media for Women’s Rights: Breakthrough
The horrific Delhi gang rape case in which a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was murdered as a result of a grotesque sexual assault brought tens of thousands of protesters into the streets of...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquitySocial Media: Brazil’s Indigenous Tribes Go Online in their Struggle To Be Heard
Brazil has several marginalized groups that often don't have a voice in government decision-making and are invisible to the majority of the country’s population. One such group, the country’s indigenous tribes, must...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityAcross the US, schools are back in session. My university started back last week, and, as I usually do, I spent the first day of class discussing the syllabus, explaining to students...
Category: Digital CitizenshipAs someone who inhabits multiple learning worlds in libraries and public schools, concepts of literacy–traditional and emerging–are central to my work as I think about pedagogies that inform literacy practices in these...
Category: Digital CitizenshipThe “New Civics,” the “Good Citizen,” and the “Born Digital” Generation
With Rewire out in the world, I’ve had some time this August to think about some of the big questions behind our work at Center for Civic Media, specifically the questions I...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipHow we think about digital media is paralleled by how we think about learner identities. What kinds of learning identities are being promoted for an anticipated future in an increasingly softwarised society?About...
Category: Digital CitizenshipAnonymity, Internet Surveillance & Lessons from the Anthony Weiner Case
As a scholar of privacy and surveillance as well as political activism in repressive societies where government surveillance has consequences much worse than embarrassment and political derailment, my take away lesson from...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWhat “Teaching Computers” Can Tell Us about Teaching Digital Culture
In a recent piece at Locus, Cory Doctorow argues:Computers are the children of the human race’s mind, and as they become intimately involved in new aspects of our lives, we keep stumbling...
Category: Digital CitizenshipSocial Media, Citizen Media, Online Tools Are Shaping Brazil’s Protests and Politics
What started earlier this month as a protest against the cost of public transportation has spread like wildfire across Brazil. One estimate said protests have taken place in 430 cities. The range...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipBe Quiet and Don’t Move So You Can Be Heard
Last Saturday, one day after I left Istanbul following an intense week of interviews with more than 100 Gezi Park protest participants, Turkish police forcefully cleared out the park, which had been...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
