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Barbara Lindsey

Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880 - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    An interactive map of U.S. immigration
Barbara Lindsey

The Innovative Educator: Think you're a Digital Immigrant? Get Over It! - 0 views

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    Talks about 'learned helplessness' exhibited by many teachers and how plns address this rather than pd
Barbara Lindsey

Repressing the Internet, Western-Style - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • Technology has empowered all sides in this skirmish: the rioters, the vigilantes, the government and even the ordinary citizens eager to help. But it has empowered all of them to different degrees.
  • After the recent massacre in Norway, many European politicians voiced their concern that anonymous anti-immigrant comments on the Web were inciting extremism. They are now debating ways to limit online anonymity.
  • latest facial-recognition technology, go through the footage captured by their numerous closed-circuit TV cameras and study chat transcripts and geolocation data, they are likely to identify many of the culprits.
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  • Egyptian secret police can purchase Western technology that allows them to eavesdrop on the Skype calls of dissidents,
  • Western politicians have proposed new tools for examining Web traffic and changes in the basic architecture of the Internet to simplify surveillance. What they fail to see is that such measures can also affect the fate of dissidents in places like China and Iran. Likewise, how European politicians handle online anonymity will influence the policies of sites like Facebook, which, in turn, will affect the political behavior of those who use social media in the Middle East.
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