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Crisis hotlines turning to text to reach teens External-link
Crisis hotlines turning to text to reach teens Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 9:13 am, Friday, March 29, 2013 NEW YORK (AP) — They stream in a couple of...
Report: More youth use smartphones as route to Web External-link
Report: More youth use smartphones as route to Web Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 9:35 pm, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The survey, released Wednesday, finds...
Pundits And Politicans Very Quick To Blame Video Game & Movie Violence For Newtown External-link
The tragedy last week in Connecticut is still horrifying to think about on many different levels -- but the constant search for blame, and using it to support pet political ideas is troubling. This isn't to say that we don't necessarily need to have a "conversation" on various hot potato political issues,...
Generation Flux Salon: How Do You Dodge Constant Distractions And Stay On Course? External-link
Retired Four-Star General Stanley McChrystal, Danah Boyd, Anil Dash, Raina Kumra, and Angela Blanchard discuss strategies for finding your "north star" as our Generation Flux salon continues. Dennis Crowley, the CEO of Foursquare, says his company focuses on "the idea of a North Star, a big, long-t...
FTC's Attempt To Broadly Expand Misguided Child Protection Law Will Chill Innovation External-link
We've written a few times about the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and how it was put in place without any data and without much concern for unintended consequences. As danah boyd has shown in her research, COPPA hasn't necessarily done much to protect children. Instead, it's made parents teach th...
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4 Things To Consider When Contemplating A Major Career Change External-link
Kelly Lynch spent 15 years of her career in equity trading and then private wealth management. When the economy tanked in 2008, Lynch was one of the few in the banking industry who still had a job. That didn’t stop her from worrying. “I started to lose interest [in finance] years ago and had always dreamed of workin...
The Most Connected Woman In Silicon Valley? External-link
For Ellen Levy, network and career are one and the same.Even in the fail-fast-or-get-acquired world of Silicon Valley startups, Ellen Levy is a master of reinvention, turning a succession of relatively brief stints in private companies, academia, NGOs, and venture capital firms into a unique role as a super connecto...
A Struggling Artist's Fall-Back Career: Curing Blindness External-link
Whether working in bronze, paint, or living cells, bioengineer Stephen Redenti takes the search for truth, beauty--and vision--seriously.Stephen Redenti is an assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at the City University of New York whose lab does cutting-edge work in stem-cell engineering...
Archaeology Student & Media Technologist Jessica Goldfin On Finding The Ampersands In Your C... External-link
What experiences as an archaeologist taught 27-year-old Jessica Goldfin about community-building games, newsroom convergence, and innovation in any occupation. As an undergraduate student of art and classical civilizations at Florida State University, Jessica Goldfin helped excavate ruins. Today, as special assista...
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Profiling a Young Global Leader - Danah Boyd


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