Category: social sciences
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A trip down memory lane: part 2 of “Social threat modeling” — DRAFT!
Note: as Shireen Mitchell and others are discussing on Twitter, “social threat modeling” isn’t necessarily a great name. Suggestions welcome! Just as I was finishing The winds of change are in the air, Twitter helpfully provided an excellent opportunity to illustrate the value of applying threat modeling techniques to social problems. VP of Trust and…
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“Social threat modeling”: the winds of change are in the air
Threat modeling is a structured approach to looking at security threats — and what can be done in response. EFF’s Assessing Your Risks describes how people wanting to keep their data safe online can do threat modeling, starting with questions like “what do I want to protect?” and “who do I want to protect it from?” Threat…
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DRAFT: Women writing about technology: a reading list for the new year
Draft! Feedback welcome! If you want to get straight to the list, feel free to skip the backstory. If you’d prefer to start of with a great example of why we need lists like this, read on 🙂
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Booberday: Google+ and Diversity, part 8
Summary: it’s a “share pictures of your cleavage because of… breast cancer! yeah!†meme. That meta-meme is potent, folks. Got something you want people to do? Claim it’s about preventing or ameliorating or alerting or grieving breast cancer. You are now the untouchable saviour. The end. — Mary, on Geek Feminism A surprising number of…
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Still a Ways to Go: the Suggested Users List (part 7 of Diversity and Google+)
Google Plus launched a “suggested users†list yesterday. I’m not on it, and I bet you aren’t either, particularly if you’re an educator — because, well, there aren’t any educators on the list. — Audrey Watters, Personal Learning Networks and the Google+ “Suggested Users” list The Google Suggested User List reads like the typical San…
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Tonight: Save the Rave — live at City Hall!
“We’re dealing with the most difficult-to-motivate generation ever. People today feel so powerless, like they can’t have an impact on anything that matters. But you can! So one of the things I’m trying to share with the community is that when you come together, we can make a difference. †– Save the Rave organizer…
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Blog for Choice Day: Yes, I’m concerned — and also encouraged
Today’s Blog for Choice Day. This year’s question is Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? To which my answer is a resounding “yes”. The combination of well-financed political assaults on women’s right to choose, assassinations years of packing courts with conservatives, and lack of support…
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#mooreandme and #p2: learnings for progressives on Twitter (REVISED DRAFT)
Draft, work in progress. Feedback welcome! Last updated February 5. Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphereâ€. Demographically and stylisticly, Twitter is far less male-dominated than the big blogs of the progressive blogosphere … — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on…
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Calling the Troops to Battle: EFF’s Say No To Censorship Campaign
‘THE net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.’ This quote from John Gilmore, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, often appears on the Internet. It reflects its users’ confidence that their electronic world, designed to resist nuclear attack, can also shrug off government regulation. By nature of its global reach and…
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Calls to Boycott Amazon over Wikileaks: #amazonfail 2.0?
Heading into the busiest shopping time of the year, Amazon is suddenly facing threats of a boycott over censoring Wikileaks.  Seems like a good time to dust off the #amazonfail hashtag. It started last week, after a hacker took one of Wikileaks’ sites down with a relatively weak attack. Wikileaks moved their online base to…
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If She Ran the World She Would … (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Please see the revised version on Tales from the Net
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What would it mean if women were paid as much as men? (DRAFT)
Draft! Please do not link here! Update, April 20: Rrevised version has been posted on Qworky’s blog, Better Software/Better World
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#iranelection and a sea of green on Twitter: at the forefront of social network activism
“The first step that I suggest as a solution is that we Iranians, no matter where we live in the world, strengthen the social ties among ourselves…. This is where the power of our social network resides.†— Mir Hussein Mousavi, quoted in Ehsan Moghaddasi’s The Green Moharram
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Celebrate, brainstorm, anticipate: asset-based thinking 2009/2010
Judy Dubin of the Cramer Institute suggests looking at a meeting as a musical performance of classical music.  Via that lens, the asset-based thinking discussion list’s last conference call for 2009 was a work for guitar, four voices, and keyboards. It featured a prelude (Eve and I chatting while waiting for others to show up),…
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Diversity and technology conferences, part 1: the Government 2.0 Expo
We received 189 valid proposals for talks at Expo Showcase. A few people, men and women, submitted two proposals, but the vast majority submitted just one. Of these 189, only 41 (or 22% of the total) were from women, with 147 proposals submitted by men. I have no reason in particular to offer for this.…
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A #diversityfail as an opportunity: guys talking to guys who talk about guys
How can an entrepeneur planning a startup that’s going to develop some revolutionary software that relates to how people work together discover truly game-changing product and business model possibilities? One approach is to look at a situation in a different way than everybody else. Easier said than done, typically … unless you’re lucky enough to…
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Packing and the friendly skies: Deviant Ollam on how to be able to really lock your luggage and avoid those horrible “TSA-approved locks”
Another Shakacon presentation, this one from Deviant Ollam. The short answer: fly with firearms.
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Equal Pay Day: #fairpay and Women don’t ask
According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2007 the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings reached almost 78 cents on the dollar for full-time year-round workers, up from just under 77 cents in 2006. This is the narrowest the wage gap has ever been, but it’s only an additional…
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How progressives can use Twitter: a strategic perspective (DRAFT)
DRAFT, CURRENTLY BEING REVISED SUBSTANTIALLY.  New recommendations here. Thanks all for the feedback! Final version to appear in The Exception. Collaboratively authored with Tracy Viselli.