A Human Rights Case For Digital Media: The Persecution of Baha’is In Iran
Imagine not being able to go to college, let alone graduate school. Imagine not being able to get a government job or owning a business. Imagine not being allowed any...
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Technology and the Dehumanization of the Black Body
Did the officers who shot and killed 12year-old Tamir Rice see him as a child? Did they see his sister, whom they threw in the back of a police cruiser,...
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Phenomenology of the Virtual and the Real
Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in, “Linda, why don’t you join us in the...
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Why Local Media and Tech Initiatives are Integral in Counterterrorism and Peacebuilding Efforts
There are many ways the American government and citizens already combat terrorism. Some of the more obvious methods include physical combat with troops on the ground, the academic study of...
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Our Data-Driven Future: Lessons from Standardized Testing
Public debate around issues of privacy and security, surveillance and oppression are on the rise as we become aware of the algorithms and big data that determine our lives. Fear...
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"And the Winner is…" : A Recap of the First gnovisLive Debate
“Just because you have thousands of friends on Facebook doesn’t mean you’ve been hugged in the past year,” joked the Moderator – Dr. Meg Jones – in her opening statements for Tuesday’s first ever...
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Will Technology Bring Us Together? Help Us Decide At gnovisLive's First Student Debate
According to recent studies, almost 2 billion people were active social media users in 2014. This means that globally almost one in four individuals are using social media. In some sense,...