Category: Cyberculture
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Group Behavior on Facebook: Amateur Self Ethnography
In continuation of my pathological obsession, most recent, to understand the ontology of our avatar, here is another post that delves into textual remembrances. What surfaces and what do we miss when all traces of our textual avatar is deleted from a group? If posts are representations of a person – their voice, so to…
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Are we pushing our digital native children towards a Catch-22 future?
With the use of digital learning devices in classrooms, educators and policy makers have set ‘interactivity’ and ‘attention span’ as the benchmark for progress in classrooms. But with psychologists and academicians constantly warning us about the permanent brain and behavior changes that our ‘connected lives’ are leading to, are we forcing our children to learn…
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Could we benefit from having censor ratings for online content?
What concerns me more today is the proliferation of material online and the easy access to the same. While it took money to buy a video cassette or music CD once upon a time, today, with 24×7 net access, the same content is easily available on YouTube or any torrent site for free download. How…
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Engineering a Cyber Twin: How do we design identities online?
This is an excerpt from the essay ‘Engineering a Cyber Twin’, published by Centre for Internet and Society, and Hivos, in ‘Digital AlterNatives with a cause?’ | The Hague: July 2011 | Download the four-volume collective here. Note: MyCyberTwin.com is a web-based artificial intelligence service founded by tech-duo Liesl Capper and John Zakos in…
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Net Governance & Online Regulation: The Other Side of Order
Try as I might, I am unable to climb out of a clichéd well of parables and phrases when it comes to piecing together a coherent write-up on ‘net governance and online regulation’. My thoughts are insistent on driving home the point about ‘great power and great responsibility’, ‘you sow what you reap’, ‘freedom is…
Nilofar Haja 