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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)!

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 […]