Weekly E-book: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Jill Rettberg explores the meaning of Instagram filters, smartphone apps that write diaries for you, and the ways in which governments and commercial entities create their own representations of people from the digital traces they leave behind as they go through their lives.
President Obama urges Congress to pass a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against ISIL
President Obama uses his State of the Union address to urge military action against ISIL. But there are problems.
Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the web surfing of Verizon customers.
Eight reports show: After Citizens United, Big Money dominates politics
A handful of deep-pocketed donors gets to determine who runs for office, what issues make it onto the agenda, and too frequently, who wins. Deirdre Fulton reports.
Weekly E-book: The Digital Public Domain
We get back to our roots with this EPUB release of the Communia Project’s book on the public domain and its digital inheritance.
Carla Berrocal
Comics time! This time we travel to Madrid to bring you a short comic from Carla Berrocal.
How Regressive Local Taxes Are Rewarding the Rich
New report finds ‘fundamentally unfair’ tax system in nearly every state. Not surprisingly, Washington tops the list. Andrea Germanos writes.
Black lives must matter more in health research
Racism is not only a social, cultural, political, and legal issue; it is also a health issue. Lindsay Kobayashi reports on the gap.
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