Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #383. Your go-to source for insightful content on education, technology, and the digital landscape. Not Hanging Around The Nazi Bar The newsletter platform Substack, known for promoting civility on the internet, is facing criticism for its lax content moderation, which has allowed white supremacist and anti-Semitic content to thrive on…
Hey there! Welcome back all. This week I posted the following: Memoir and the Creative Process – This is a follow-up to my earlier post about mental health and depression. We don’t always recognize the gifts we’re given by suffering through disappointing and difficult times until long after the fact. Today Is the Tomorrow We…
Welcome back, friends. Thank you to all of you that regularly (or irregularly) reach out and say hey each week. I value learning how you’re doing in your worlds. This week I published the following: Healthy Avatars and Sick People – A piece about the challenges of critical digital literacies in the context of health…
Shattered Myths Digitally Lit #244 – 5/2/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #244 of Digitally Literate. I was involved in the following this week: Reflections of a school counselor during the 2020 school closures – Together with a group of colleagues in SC, we’re holding space for educators to reflect & heal. This month’s focus…
The survival of the species Digitally Lit #195 – 4/27/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Lock your phone when handing to…
Happy 30th Birthday to the World Wide Web. The world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 – originally he was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments. Hypertext (text displayed on a computer display that links to other text the reader can…
For the longest time, we thought that as speech became more democratized, democracy itself would flourish. But in 2018, it is increasingly clear that more speech can in fact threaten democracy.
Zeynep Tufecki in Politico Magazine. All annotations in context. But in the digital age, when speech can exist mostly unfettered, the big threat to truth looks very different. It’s not just censorship, but an avalanche of undistinguished speech—some true, some false, some fake, some important, some trivial, much of it out-of-context, all burying us. Perhaps…
Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
An expose on Tim Berners Lee in Vanity Fair. The piece describes Berners-Lee invention of the World Wide Web and his recent work with Solid to re-decentralize the web. For now, the Solid technology is still new and not ready for the masses. But the vision, if it works, could radically change the existing power dynamics of…
Here’s a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley.
Mary Meeker, a former Morgan Stanley internet analyst and now partner at venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, delivered her annual internet trends report at this year’s Code conference in California today (May 30). Some interesting initial takeaways: Global smartphone shipment growth has fallen to effectively nil. Growth in the world’s number of internet users has…
Mozilla’s Internet Health Report is about the human experience of the Internet.
Here’s what’s new: More people are opening their eyes to the real impact the Internet has on our societies, economies, and personal wellbeing. We are beginning to see the health of the Internet as not just a technical issue, but a human one. This report features global insights and perspectives across five issues: Privacy and…
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