Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Risk of our Personal Privacy: Who?

Net neutrality, surveillance, and internet privacy are, frankly, scary subjects. They are things that are simply easier not to talk about. They get messy. They run around in circles until you think that…

Google is not making us stupid

In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?“ Nicholas Carr writes, “As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence,” (Carr, 2008). Carr believes that over time technology has…

Thin Thread

The new millennium generation is under the impression that we have it made but could we be wrong? We are wrapped up in our iPhone, iPad on varies social media form that we lack awareness as to what is really happening in front of our faces. We are being continually misled and manipulated by the things we…

The Glitch of Women’s Portrayal in Society

Glitch art was exasperating and provoked irritation within me. Going into my first glitch art experience, I asked myself how difficult can it be to produce and exploit ‘errors’ emergent in digital media? To my surprise, I underestimated how difficult and…

An (Attempted) Response to CitizenFour

Prior to viewing CitizenFour, I had little to no knowledge on privacy and data surveillance. Similar to anyone else who was on the same page as me, I was completely unaware that the government has (illegal) massive covert-surveillance programs run by the…

The Importance of Privilege Awareness

The reading response I am going to do is mainly based on the articles, “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is”, by John Scalzi and “Of Dogs and Lizards: A Parable of Privilege” by Sindelókë.

Glitching Culture

Culture connects people to a rich and deep history of ancestral traditions, thereby giving groups of people a common identity and definition.

Seeing that culture provides solidarity how does the notion of cultural misrepresentation arise? Furthermore, how can this…

Internet Misogyny

“The Web is regularly hailed for its “openness” and that’s where the confusion begins, since “open” in no way means “equal.” While the Internet may create space for many voices, it also reflects and often amplifies real-world inequities in striking ways.” This opening quote taken from Astra…

Privacy Protected

In the documentary “Citizenfour,” directed by Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden states, “we all have a stake in this, this is our country and the balance of power between the citizenry and the government is becoming that of the ruling and the ruled as opposed to actually, you know, the elected and…

The Power of Privilege

For many decades, there have been countless situations where gender determined a majority of things. Whether it pertained to work success, social life, or even family problems, the unfair treatment between men and women created a disarray of inequality in the workplace and beyond. To this…