Fahrenheit 404
Terms and Conditions
Belonging Online and In the Library
How Not To Fight Terrorism
The Boundaries of 'Information' in Information Literacy
Peering Into Peer Review
Faux Protest
By Tracy Mitrano. Remember when Wikipedia went black over SOPA and PIPA (thank you Aaron Swartz)? Now that was a protest that got people’s attention and contributed mightily to the legislation being overthrown. More...
Sex and IT in higher education
By Tracy Mitrano. From the Ellen Pao’s sexual harassment case to Susan Fowler’s expose of Uber, the press is suddenly paying a lot of attention to the issue of women’s experience in technology. More...
All the Future in an Op-Ed
By Tracy Mitrano. “The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence,” an op-ed in The New York Times, is the important article you can read and contemplate this week. Its kernel concept: forget the sci-fi concerns about AI, reducing humans to cyborgs; the real threat comes in age-old questions about the distribution of power among the humans who control it. More...