Last night I stayed up too late, drawn into conversation by the right energy and the right amount of wine, with my roommate in Amsterdam where I’m currently attending THNK. I knew that, today (Saturday), I would have to present a project I’ve been thinking about, and I was feeling unprepared. The project, roughly, is […]
After the recent (and hopefully, ongoing) uproar over Yahoo!’s failure to implement encryption on its Mail app and other sites, it might seem surprising that I’d write this post. And yet, while I will continue to push for Yahoo! to get its act together and secure its sites, I want to give a bit of […]
Originally published in the Centre for Internet & Society’s Digital Natives With a Cause newsletter [PDF] Be it online or offline, successful citizen movements are approached through careful planning and foresight, and not merely by paying lip service to popular imaginings of protest campaigns, says Jillian C York. Digital activism—that is, collective action tactics conducted […]