Both Wendy Chun and Vernor Vinge’s presentations were excellent.
Chun’s talk was wide ranging: she talked about imagined communities (ala Benedict Anderson) and Open Source and Free Software, Habermas and the epistolary novel, the Hong Kong Bus Uncle, and much more. I never thought I’d see someone use a packet sniffer at an academic talk. Altogether, [...]
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Virtual Citizenship Part II
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments · General
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Virtual Citizenship Symposium Part I
November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · General
Fred Stutzman gave an interesting talk this morning at the Virtual Citizenship Symposium about facebook and social activism. He talked a lot about activism within Facebook about facebook (e.g. groups against the news feed), much of which revolves around privacy. How much privacy can one expect these days, with technologies like Beacon and Google, and [...]
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