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“To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”: Some final (personal) thoughts.
This past semester, we talked a fair bit about the core question of “To Regulate or Not to Regulate” in the context of Foundations of Digital Media. Originally, in this and other courses, the question was really just a useful way to “sharpen the saw” (apologies to Stephen Covey), allowing space for the possible self-renewal […]
Thank you. That was really fun (adjectival meaning)!
A belated, heart-felt thank you to the 2nd cohort of UBC Foundations of Digital Media. You were great individually and as a group. Which makes teaching easy and fun. And hopefully does something similar for learning. Your presentations and papers were terrific. Obviously we were helped by the times we are in, where news about […]
News of the Week; June 19, 2019
DIGITAL UK makes ‘first’ conviction over 3-D printed gun Browsewrap Terms Enforced Due to Customer Knowledge of Existence of Terms New Zealand judge sends neo-Nazi to prison for sharing mosque shooting video: Sharing the video is illegal in NZ and “encourages mass murder,” judge says. New Zealand Man Gets 21 Months In Prison For Sharing […]
News of the Week; June 12, 2019
DIGITAL Huawei’s PR Campaign Comes Straight From the Party’s Playbook: The trade war is showing how deep Beijing’s global influence runs. Canada’s economic future could be ‘difficult’ if it fails to ban Huawei: expert Report: Google argues the Huawei ban would hurt its Android monopoly Huawei’s export ban is wider in scope than most people […]
News of the Week; June 5, 2019
DIGITAL The New Commissioner of Competition Requests Changes to Address Digital Economy Challenges Fixing Fair Dealing for the Digital Age: What Lies Behind the Copyright Review’s Most Important Recommendation (Michael Geist) The Authoritative Canadian Copyright Review: Industry Committee Issues Balanced, Forward-Looking Report on the Future of Canadian Copyright Law (Michael Geist) This Is Why We Can’t […]
News of the Week; May 29, 2019
DIGITAL Zuckerberg and Sandberg ignore Canadian subpoena, face possible contempt vote Facebook Took Down 2.2 Billion Fake Accounts in Q1 Conservative Bias? Twitter Bans Famous ‘Resistance’ Heroes Distorted Videos of Nancy Pelosi Spread on Facebook and Twitter, Helped by Trump Trump allies spread distorted videos of Pelosi Facebook on fake Pelosi video: Being ‘false’ isn’t […]
News of the Week; May 22, 2019
DIGITAL Federal government proposes sweeping digital charter Canada’s Digital Charter: Trust in a digital world The Foundation of Canada’s Digital Charter: Privacy Law Reform Focused on a Data-Driven Economy (Michael Geist) The World Wants to Fight Online Hate. Why Doesn’t President Trump?: The White House foolishly rejected an international effort to stop the spread of […]
News of the Week; May 15, 2019
DIGITAL White House refuses to sign international statement on online extremism: Trump administration is “not currently in a position to join” global statement. Chinese owners of Grindr forced to sell by US over spying and blackmail fears CBS Happily Engages In Censorship To Placate China Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You […]
News of the Week; May 8, 2019
DIGITAL Feds take down dark web index and news site Deep Dot Web How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks A mysterious hacker gang is on a supply-chain hacking spree: Group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned software of at least six companies. China Stole NSA Cyberweapons And Used […]
News of the Week; May 1, 2019
DIGITAL Can we ever regulate online spaces? (Andres Guadamuz) Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting PewDiePie Addresses Christchurch Massacre, Urges Fans To Stop Using “Subscribe To PewDiePie” Facebook Files Questionable Lawsuit Over Fake Followers And Likes Austrian Government Wants To Outlaw Online Anonymity Smoking, depression apps sell your data to […]