New Media

Pariser After Dark

Here are some relevant links to what we discussed in class today.

TED Talk: Eli Pariser “Beware Online Filter Bubbles”
New York Times: “Acxiom: The Quiet Giant of Consumer Marketing”
New York Times: “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” is the story about Target uses data to predict consumer needs and behaviors.

Here are some links to relevant information we discussed today.

Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Schwartz, who committed suicide in January 2013, after being tried for posting academic articles from JSTOR.
Escape from Tomorrow, a movie surreptitiously filmed at Walt Disney World and Disney California. Available from Amazon.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: SOPA/PIPA: Internet Blackout Legislation.
Photographs of Eiffel Tower at night cannot be published because the lighting designs are copyrighted. There are not restrictions on photographs taken during the day because the structure is in the public domain.
Los Angeles Times: MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum for Elementary School Students. Curriculum reform you can trust.

Rushkoff encourages everyone understand what computers and the Internet do. Some have extended this to mean that coding can solve social problems.

Code Academy. A website that teaches you programming.
Medium: Arresting the Unjustly Homeless While They Learn to Code. Can teaching programming solve poverty and homlessness?