“Each standard and each category valorizes some point of view and silences another. This is not inherently a bad thing—indeed it is inescapable. But it is an ethical choice, and as such it is dangerous—not bad, but dangerous.” —Bowker and Star, Sorting Things Out, p. 5-6* GMU Professor Robin Hanson […]
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In 1984 three MIT researchers published a paper titled “End-to-End Arguments in System Design.” They advocated a “design principle that helps guide placement of functions among the modules of a distributed computer system.” Certain network solutions, they argued, could “completely and correctly be implemented only with the help of the […]
A few weeks ago I was contacted by the managing editor at The EvoLLLution. He asked me to write two pieces for a special publication on the Internet and adult education. This article, an attempt to make sense of MOOCs, was originally posted to their site and crossposted with permission. […]
A few weeks ago I was contacted by the managing editor at The EvoLLLution. He asked me to write two pieces for a special publication on the Internet and adult education. This article, on how to best use social media to speak to potential students, was originally posted to their […]
I’ve been hunkered down these last few weeks sketching a skeleton of my thesis on user-generated censorship. One of the questions I have been prompted to answer is how user-generated censorship happens. In its most immediate, technical character, this is a trivial question to answer. On reddit and digg it […]