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Search & Research

Protections for intermediaries from liability for users’ content are necessary to a vibrant, innovative Internet.  These legal protections allow Internet access providers, content hosts, social networks, and others to support a robust online environment for free expression without worrying about potential liability for the material stored on or moving across their networks. Without them, services…


Your Choice Assignments: Search & Research

Technological Somnambulism Definition: Langdon Winner seems to develop a McLuhanian concern about the value-free quality of tools; he as well questions technological determinism. Versions of determinism as defined in Wikipedia: Hard determinists would view technology as developing independently from social concerns. They would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our…


Your Choice Assignments: Search & Research

Digital Humanities Just having completed Skip Via’s ED 677 Digital Storytelling class, it made sense to start with this topic. Definition: Bryan Alexander offers a working definition: “Simply put, it is telling stories with digital technologies. Digital stories are narratives built from the stuff of cyberculture” (Alexander, 2010, Loc 110 of 3318). I think there…