Plato’s tale of two ancient Egyptian gods discussing the invention of writing debates the same challenges we face now in the digital age, suggesting these issues have been around for a long time, and that Read More …
You guarded your data carefully, but companies still seem to know about you and your movements across the internet and offline. How did it happen? This post is a summary of the article Shadow footprints Read More …
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 Read More …
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 charted Read More …
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 …
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 …
I am not a GIS professional (GIS stands for Geographic Information System). Lucky for me, here, no one is an outsider to the GIS community. The warmly inclusive atmosphere of the New England chapter of URISA’s Read More …
The single most difficult venture in exploring digital civics, has been explaining, when asked, what it means. “It’s basically about everything” I usually say, “because in the digital age, everything about our lives is impacted Read More …
