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Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
Jan 28, 2010 2:50pm
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate a......
Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on “Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America”
Jan 28, 2010 12:06pm
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate...
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
Jan 25, 2010 9:48am
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it's important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to......
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
Jan 25, 2010 6:48am
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you’re interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it’s important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to...
whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success
Jan 19, 2010 5:42pm
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often bark back that I was simply debating. Over the years, I realized that my debating tone is one of such confidence......
Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms
Jan 16, 2010 5:55pm
When I learned that Mark Zuckerberg effectively argued that 'the age of privacy is over' (read: ReadWriteWeb), I wanted to scream. Actually, I did. And still am. The logic goes something like this: People I knew didn't used to like to be public. Now "everyone" is being public. Ergo, privacy......
Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
Dec 29, 2009 1:05pm
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last two years concerning the intersection of race/ethnicity/class and social network sites, I feel the need to respond. And, with pleasure, I'm......
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