Trying to Avoid the Advertising on the Horizon
Catching up on my feeds from the weekend, I came across Danah Boyd’s posting about youth, advertising, and social responsibility. by strangeinterlude The short of it is this: marketing necessarily creates ideals, these ideals put substantial pressure on our youth, and the “kids”, in turn, take it out on each other. In her blog, Danah […]
Laissez-faire About Privacy
After visiting 30 schools and talking to hundreds, if not thousands, of college students in the past two years, my conclusion is this: Students do not care about privacy in any fundamental sense. They just don’t. They figure the government just shouldn’t or wouldn’t mess with them. Corporations aren’t even on the radar. The only […]