In this essay, we introduce media quiteracy, which we use to conceptualize and describe the valuable learning that can happen through the refusal to take up new media or the act of pausing or ceasing ...

I gave this talk this afternoon at Concordia University, as part of the SkepTech series questioning education technology. Today's bird, which does not appear anywhere in the talk, is the house sparro...

Civics of Technology Announcements Library Community: We’re building a CoT community for those involved with or interested in libraries. Andrea Baer is leading this effort and if you’re interest...

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

Research Paper Series No. 7

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

The AI surveillance company is running into the same bipartisan anger that engulfed data centers, as worries about artificial intelligence rise.

Allen Lane has acquired Priyamvada Gopal’s On Decolonization, described as a “landmark new history of how colonialism continues to shape our world”.

Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

A full-year program where high schoolers build real schools, run original research, and immerse in communities across Kenya, Ecuador, and the U.S.

Legal Resources Centre weighs appeal after tribunal approves US giant’s facility

All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Crei...

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are ea...

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

Commentary on Towards the Permissive and Transparent use of Generative AI in Education by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

This article develops the concept of ‘AI resignation’ to capture how young people encounter AI not only as a helpful or flawed tool, but as an overpowering and seemingly inevitable force that can for....

For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

“With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet” writes 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, in response to Amazon’s ad in the Super Bowl promising that its front poor camera could be turne...

Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.