Privacy, Safety and Education Online »

This post has been on my mind for quite a while, but I just have not gotten around to writing it. However, with the recent shut down of Al Upton’s minibloggers, I feel that it is time that I express a few opinions on the idea of student privacy, safety and online education. If you’ve [...]

Wendy Chun-Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics–A Chapter by Chapter Summary »

Introduction
Chun’s introduction focuses on the ideas of control and power as they apply to the Internet. Examining Deleuze’s and Foucault’s ideas of control societies and the differences between control societies and disciplinary societies. Chun looks at the ways in which control and power, in the terms of the Internet, always relate to ideas of sexuality [...]