How You Do Everything Digitally Lit #230 – 1/25/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #230 of Digitally Literate. This week I spent time behind the scenes working on a couple projects. Some of this includes starting to blog again for our Screentime Research Group. If you would like to get involved in that work…please send…
An interview with Dr. Howard Stevenson from the series on racial literacy & tech from Data & Society Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. This is the first interview in a series on racial literacy and tech, curated by Data & Society 2018–19 Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. It expands on ideas from her new paper Advancing Racial Literacy…
Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, someone's lost cat and Post Malone.
Most Americans pay at least a little attention to current events, but they differ enormously in where they turn to get their news and which stories they pay attention to. To get a better sense of how a busy news cycle played out in homes across the country, we repeated an experiment, teaming up with…
Democrats and Republicans should be ashamed of our recent education report card.
A good piece highlighting the recent 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores. The authors indicate the abysmal performance of U.S. students, while indicating the following: should leave all of us—Democrats and Republicans, wealthy or poor alike—ashamed of how we are condemning our children to a future of economic insecurity and social decay. The…
Catching up on my Bloglines backlog, I noticed John Battelle’s post on a data bill of rights. Last year, I spent some time thinking about how the BBC should deal with personal data, and came …
A post about capturing, retaining, and using personal data: Its Your Data It should always be visible Using data in a service should be a tangible experience Data should be tradable between services Users’ data profiles should be faceted Your data should be disposable
A new study shows that poverty lowers IQ.
The usual side effects of poverty are abundant and well documented. They include crime, chronic stress and a long list of health conditions. But you may not have heard of this one: lower IQ. That’s according to a recent post by Alice Walton in the University of Chicago Business School’s journal, The Chicago Booth Review: “How poverty changes…