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(CNN) -- Remember earlier this year when Wikipedia went black in protest of anti-piracy legislation moving through the U.S. Congress? Yeah, well, that may be nothing compared to this. A group called the Internet Defense League, borrowing a page from Batman, is trying to create a "bat signal" for mobilizing open-Internet activists against similar legislation.

The battle for "internet freedom" continues! This time Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will introduce the Internet Defense League just in time for Congress to visit the CISPA legislation, which allows the U.S. government, in cooperation with certain tech companies, to access various personal internet traffic information. The president has already threatened to VETO this bill due to concerns for confidentiality and civil liberties.

I was shown this map a while ago, and I'm still not entirely sure how accurate it is. 

ooops....link appears to be blocked/broken

*Chapter 1- Spoiling Survivor- Jenkins NOT SAFE FOR WORK- (NOT SAFE FOR LIFE)! Jenkins mentions briefly the undercurrenty world of fan fiction. This has been a community that is often the butt of many jokes. The vocal artist "Duke", has a particularly hilarious audioboo in which he finds terrible things online such as facebook statuses, google reviews, foreign bootleg DVD descriptions, and reads them aloud in his advertising voice. (Spelling and grammar mistakes included!) I actually personally love the animated show Adventure Time, but in this link, Duke reads some particularly disturbing fanfiction. Fanfiction very often has a sexual connotation and reputation as fantasy writing, lending to it being laughable among "trolls" or other internet threads. Feel free to delete this if its inappropriate- sometimes my personal filter is off-kilter when it comes to the internet. I mean no offense or harm. It is media convergence in its seedy side, academically speaking.

Where's the boundary preventing you from accessing this website? The pseudo-top level domain hosted in the Tor network prevents determining geographical location. Yet that's not the only boundary. The point of access to this site could reside on a router, computer, or an individual instance of an internet browser. 

media boundaries. 

In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.

Heard about this on NPR today, M.I.T. and Harvard are actually starting a non-profit and have already dumped $60 million into a project they call edX, intended to "improve, not replace, the campus experience." Should turn out to be an honorable donation to the global learning community. This is an interesting move towards providing free access to quality educational information. -Another article containing a press release: Engadget Article

John Peel's Collection via thespace.org

Here's the link to the 'space': http://thespace.org/items/s000004u

in 2006, I would use this little internet survey as a means of testing my own sense of self-identity vs. what others might have perceived me as being.

There is no question that we should all evaluate our social interactions online, but it is interesting that we now have to reconsider how to censor ourselves and our "friends" in online environments as if those digital messages represented the same type of interaction as if we were face-to-face. We have given this type of communication the same status, but are they really? Or do we need to develop a different sort of etiquette?