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Three Reasons Why Politics in the US Are Doomed
US politics are “dismal, disgusting and infuriating.” They will be until we all “do politics.”
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Unintended Audience: Raffi Urges Protecting Kids From Facebook, Social Media
In book excerpt, the sage of children's music advises that social media are changing family life, youth peer relations and how people experience life, yet we have no clear …
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Fast Food Workers Win a Union … Through Zoolidarity
Fast food workers at the Oregon Zoo defied the odds and voted in a union, but they started acting like a union well before the vote.
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Texas State Trooper Checkpoints Meet Social Media
With tens of thousands of people up in arms about the checkpoints, there is momentum for reform.
Security Wars: Inside the Military’s Big, Messy Fight With Palantir, the Company They Pay to Spy on You Online
Agency infighting about which technology to use for global spying may be the best news there is for privacy advocates.
Outsourced Intelligence: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media
Palantir Technologies is now the leading embodiment of online Big Brother.
Why Governments Are Afraid of Twitter
Revolutionary actions that once would have been nearly impossible to coordinate are popping up thanks to tools like Twitter.
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An Excerpt From Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons to Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us
In this preface to his new book, ecology and children's champion Raffi Cavoukian considers some of the downsides of social media for youth.
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Shooters Transformed by a New Era of Virtual Dehumanization?
A new era of virtual dehumanization has transformed the nature of violence.
Why Couldn’t the Left Prevail in Mexico?
In the past dozen years, left parties in a whole lot of Latin America countriesu2014from Argentina to El Salvadoru2014have won elections and taken power. But, so far, Mexico has …