The Heterogeneity of U.S. Digital Youth
Due to their high levels of engagement with the tools, networks, and the content in the new media environment, U.S. youth has become the focus of various studie...
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Evolving Digital Inequalities: Understanding the Changing Countours of Divides and Gaps
Over the last three decades, the rapid development and adoption of digital technology infrastructures, tools, and practices, has given rise to a new communicati...
Typecasting Format
Typecasting is a hybrid media format for publishing content on the web, especially in blogs. To typecast means to post an image of a text that has been written ...
Geographic Data and Inequalities
I just assisted a great panel at SXSWi that discussed the inequalities of Geo-Data on the internet. This is something we sometimes overlook when we talk about ...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
The Internet on Strike
Today, January 18th of 2012, the web goes dark in protest against #PIPA and #SOPA. Last time a strike happened in the internet was in 1996 when many sites went ...
Book review : The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers By Tom Standage. New York : Walker and Co., 19...