Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
Podcast: Mark Dery, “(Face)book of the Dead”
Mark Dery asks, “What does it say about us, as a society, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely?”
Comparative Media Insights: “The Googlization of Everything”
Siva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
