All entries tagged: danah boyd
Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy
[In October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy issued its report on how our media need to evolve to serve the public interest in the digital age. The effort included some big names: Google's Marissa Mayer, former solicitor general Ted Olson, ex-L.A. Times editor John Carroll, former FCC chairman [...]
On retweeting: How broadcasting someone else’s 140 characters helps make a new medium social
So you’re on Twitter. You know what a hashtag is; you can squeeze any message into 140 characters. You’re a veteran.
But do you know about the battle between the adapters and the preservers? Can you identify an “ego retweet” when you see one? Have you thought about the intellectual-property implications of the letters “RT”?
Three [...]
