CIS Focal Issue

describes the rules and restrictions we put on screen time. Some of these restrictions limit time, other restrictions filter content.

Restrictive Mediation

Unlimited access to media becomes one of the markers of adulthood.

Instructive Mediation describes what happens when we talk to our kids while watching a movie or playing a video game with them. Make it a teaching opportunity

Instructive mediation is key for raising kids that are critical thinkers and intelligent adults in a media saturated world–kids who know how to THINK about the media they consume.

Social Coviewing is when you watch something with your kids but don’t necessarily talk about it. This is what happens in a movie theater.

This is what happens when I watch Phineas and Ferb with my kids.

Parallel play is kind of like multitasking. I can be typing on my Chromebook next to my son while he’s playing minecraft. We engage in peripheral conversations, some tangential, and some directly related to the game he is playing.

Asymmetrical joint media engagement

While interacting with me online, I hope they learn good web etiquette. I’m teaching them lessons about propriety and social media. They see the kinds of things I write in emails and chats.

Harford argues that much can be done to make public space safe for children. “I would like to see pedestrian-friendly crossings more frequently on streets. I would like to see the streets be more kid-oriented with wider sidewalks, as well as a more coherent attitude amongst people on the street to be watching out for kids.”

in “real life, only from the ordinary adults of the city sidewalks do children learn – if they learn it at all – the first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

Ronda Howard, a Vancouver senior city planner, notes that when there are greater incentives for people to walk in their neighbourhoods, there are more eyes on the street: thus the streets become safer.

Despite the challenges facing parents raising children in the city, different social networks can augment child involvement in public space. Harford says that strong social ties help increase her son’s autonomy in Vancouver

When we actively engage with others who are different from us, we have the opportunity to become more sophisticated and tolerant citizens. When we get to know the diverse members of our communities, we create social networks that make our cities safer and more enjoyable. Public spaces are integral to making this happen. These spaces are an antidote to the inward gaze of individualism. We need to reclaim public space and work to expand its boundaries. It’s time for us to leave the house of the self in the background, and go outside

You might own expensive cars, but your children are still playing cricket on the streets; there are no playgrounds. Clubs and atriums are becoming new ideas of public spaces where rich children go for recreation. These notions of public spaces are oppressive to children. We are all trapped in our high-density capsules that will lead to serious health and mental trauma

TONO also

“As high-speed internet capacity has become normal and often included in mobile subscriptions, illegal download and use of music has decreased,”

“The new legislation is in my opinion not sufficiently technology neutral, as it is clearly designed to serve as a tool to prevent P2P file sharing and not, for example, illegal streaming services, which may become a problem in the years to come.”

It appears to be designed to serve as a tool for rights holders to intervene against illegal file sharing by the use of peer-to-peer technology and web sites

“It is still an open question whether the rights holders will be able to use the legislation as a tool against copyright infringements that employ different technology, such as cloud-based storage and sharing of infringing material.

хостинг-провайдер освобождается от ответственности, если он не знал и не должен был знать, что использование материала неправомерно

институт предварительных обеспечительных мер защиты интеллектуальных прав в информационно-телекоммуникационных сетях

правообладатель на основании судебного акта вправе обратиться в Роскомнадзор с заявлением о принятии мер по ограничению доступа к информационному ресурсу, неправомерно распространяющему указанную информацию

Роскомнадзор в течение трех дней должен определить хостинг-провайдера и направить ему уведомление с требованием принять меры по удалению такой информации.

Хостинг-провайдер в течение суток с момента получения уведомления должен довести его до владельца информационного ресурса, который еще в течение суток обязан информацию удалит

При получении судебного решения об отмене ограничения доступа к информационному ресурсу Роскомнадзор в течение трех рабочих дней с этого момента должен уведомить об этом хостинг-провайдера и операторов связ

Tobii

building a 3D model of my eyes and could watch and see where

Tobii Gaze eye-tracking technology-equipped laptop

Even if I turned away and turned back, Tobii instantly picked up my gaze

Leaving aside the slightly unfortunate mental image of your eyes touching anything, this does sound like a new form of human/computer interface.

Windows 8’s modern design interface seems particularly well suited to gaze control. The screen scrolls from left to right and is comprised of a number of large app squares. I would simply stare at square and then hit enter to activate the app. Tobii never missed my gaze. Whatever I was looking at, the eye-tracking tech would launch it.

Tobii has no plans to deliver its own commercial laptops. Instead, it’s working with OEMs on integration.

Tobii is also working on eye-tracking control for tablets.

the reconstitution of scents in liquid form which is subsequently stored in capsules--remains speculative

So what are the alternatives to Barbie? American Girl dolls look a lot more like, well, girls. They’re chubby-cheeked, freckled, and breast-less.

Monster High dolls. Mattel asserts that they convey a healthy message to growing girls. “The message about the brand is really to celebrate your own freaky flaws, especially as bullying has become such a hot topic,”

There are three types of work that humans do really well but computers cannot (yet):

reinvent our education system to prepare children for an "increased emphasis on conceptual understanding and problem-solving"--and to better collaborate with, take care of, and program the computers that are going to continue to be our sidekicks

4) Being human

For the Saturday, July 13 barbecue attended by JRT, a record 1,117 women raised their hands for the 80 spots advertised as available. Given demand, the sponsors expanded the party and 131 women ultimately came

new cities, which would cater to the “well-heeled,” would be built in places where rising sea levels would actually improve local climates. Rising temperatures and an increase in arable land as a result of climate change is expected to occur in Russia, Canada, Scandinavia, Chile, Argentina, southern Africa, the Great Lakes region

cities would also make use of newer technologies. Self-driving cars, for example, will transform living patterns due to convoy features that sharply reduce both commute times and greenhouse gas consumption