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Victorian Insights on the Environmental Impact of Digital Technology
Many of our modern cultural ideas come from the Victorians, so what can they teach us about our relationship to technology and its impact on the environment? From the normalization of throw-away culture, to the environmental dangers of technological hysteria, it turns out, quite a bit. Read More …
Opinion: Money or Community? Discord’s make or break
The more I hear and read about discord, the more I’m reminded of the early days of the internet, and the early communities that grew up around it. I’m reminded of Melissa Anelli’s book: she Read More …
John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” in the digital age classroom.
Ways of Seeing: BBC’s classic production, released in 1972, nearly 50 years ago, presciently helps us appreciate the nature of our digital age world, by exploring the cultural inheritances in the west that have shaped Read More …
Social Media in the Civics Classroom
There’s no more pretending that social media platforms don’t have power over our civic world- it’s time we educate about using them responsibly. After years of educators and researchers attempting to point out the problem Read More …
Reflecting on GIS from outside the profession: thoughts from NEURISA Day 2020 (Oct 19-21)
Pull up a google map for directions, use an app to track the spread of Covid, even just to play Pokemon, you need GIS. This is your life. My life. GIS is integral to the fabric of digital age existence, and there’s a quest to understand how to help people appreciate this. Read More …