Category: Government & Policy
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Orwell: The Right to Internet Privacy and Why There May Be Hope Yet (or Not)
Like most who attended high school in the States, I read George Orwell’s proverbial classic Nineteen Eighty-Four as a teenager, and (as every good eighteen-year-old in America should be) was frightened by the book’s implications and depictions of the cultism that can arise in a totalitarian society run by an omnipresent authority figure. Upon discovering […]
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LazosNexos Exp1
Some time ago (2014) I proposed the idea of having a cell phone application that would allow you to view the existing relationships in the contact list. The conceptual basis of this work was basically based on the proposal of Bruno Latour's actor network. However, it is complex, it seems, to solve the technical challenges […]
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Making Sense of Election 2016 & Digital Political Communication
Hi all, Last week I attended the conference “Making Sense of Election 2016,” which was organized by the Aggie Agora team and the Texas A&M University. The meeting included relevant keynote speakers in the fields of political science and communication, such as Julia Azari, Daniel Kreiss, John Murphy, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley. The main idea of […]
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Crowdsourcing Celebrities
This article focuses on the massive donations received by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) following Trump’s executive order on immigration. The ACLU received $24 million in online donations in under 48 hours following the announcements, compared to “the $7.2 million the organization received five days following Trump’s election.” The amount is also reportedly six […]
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Affirming Core Values of HASTAC and the Futures Initiative
Dear friends of HASTAC and the Futures Initiative, We write today to reaffirm our core values of intellectual freedom and education as a public good, and to invite you, our members, to use these two networks, HASTAC and the Futures Initiative, to fight for those values, especially at this time when they are being severely […]
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How other respond to me as a foreigner
As a foreigner from Italy, my first impressions on how Americans respond to me were in overall, positive. Considering that for somehow Italians has usually good reputation, maybe because our old history or our creativity. For taking an example, Uber drivers always asking my origin because my different accent, it comes out 1st because of […]
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Do you work on an environmental history or humanities project?
As the Associate Editor of the Living Landscape Observer blog and as a Phd Candidate in US History, I am constantly looking for ways to link together the worlds of environmental policy and environmental history / humanities. I attend conferences in both arenas and only occasionally find any overlap between the two communities. One way I am […]
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Thoughts on the American Prison Writing Archive
Working on a transcription for the American Prison Writing Archive was a very enlightening experience. To be completely honest, I at first questioned why this project existed and was uncomfortable with the idea of not only reading the thoughts of prisoners, but of helping them get their writing out to the public. I struggled […]