Becoming a critical consumer of technology isn’t just the responsibility of our teachers, our policy makers or software developers: we need to arm ourselves with the knowledge and the know-how to break out of our technofundamentalist trappings, and to wrestle our lives back from the machines.
personal computer is political
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for the rest of us
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for Educators
Monday March 31, 2014 @ 09:46 AM (UTC)How do we become critical of media? Through the lessons from our teachers and educators. The people who are the lifeblood to the next generation of informed online participants should be armed with digital literacies, outlined in The Personal (Computer) is Political, the research report released last week for The Nominet Trust. In the report, I propose several recommendations for taking those important steps in that direction.
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for Policy & Regulation
Friday March 28, 2014 @ 09:23 AM (UTC)Software is not the solution to social ills, yet “software solutions” are de facto implemented in policy and regulation without an accurate understanding of what’s actually offered. From Big Data to privacy to censorship, here are recommendations from The Personal (Computer) Is Political for policy makers and regulators, published by The Nominet Trust earlier this week.
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for Developers
Monday March 24, 2014 @ 01:09 PM (UTC)Software is biased, so how can developers act in the best interest of their audience?
On Monday, The Nominet Trust published The Personal (Computer) Is Political, a provocation paper based my last three years research looking at philosophies and agendas built into in the software and web services we use every day. The report calls for consumers and creators to recognise that software is a cultural artefact – like film, television, architecture, comedy, food, art and design – and therefore it is part of the zeitgeist of its day. This includes the political, economic and social climate of where and when it was built.
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[Academic] The Personal (Computer) Is Political: a new report on humans, computers and our technofundamentalist tendencies
Monday March 24, 2014 @ 12:41 PM (UTC)I’m pleased to announce the publication of The Personal (Computer) is Political, a new report funded by The Nominet Trust, based on the last three years of academic research.
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