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Bandersnatch… McLuhan was right. Again.

Having spent about two hours playing through Netflix’ Bandersnatch, what I found really interesting was the hand-holding, what that said about the presumed audience, and how that telegraphed a set of...

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Teaching Award!

On April 24th, 2019, I was honoured to receive a Sessional Instructor Superior Teaching Award from Dean David Cameron, University of Toronto! Thank you, Emily Gilbert, Director Canadian Studies...

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Protecting Children’s Data Privacy in the Smart City

Just posted this essay on Medium – “Protecting Children’s Data Privacy in the Smart City” The material here is a small fraction of a larger research inquiry into how major tech platforms and media...

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Can We Trust Alphabet & Sidewalk Toronto with Children’s Data? Past...

I spoke today before the City of Toronto Executive Committee on the update to Quayside, and the proposed Master Innovation and Development Plan from Sidewalk Toronto. The full text of my statement on...

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Hidden Histories: Labour to Lofts! First talk at MixtuRealities Conference!

I was delighted to kick-off MixtuRealities Conference at University of Toronto Mississauga, yesterday, sharing a short history of the Hidden Histories project and details of the just launched, Labour...

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We street proof our kids. Why aren’t we data proofing them?

My new post on the insecurity of children’s data and the need for data proofing is now up on The Conversation. “Google recently agreed to pay a US$170 million fine for illegally gathering children’s...

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My Warning for Waterfront Toronto on Sidewalk Labs Open Door to Data in the...

This morning I attended the Waterfront Toronto Board of Directors Meeting and while the initial summary of ‘realignments’ from the original Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) seemed a...

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“Nuit Blanche and Transformational Publics”

I stumbled on this feature article on our SSHRC funded, social media creative research project. In 2010, Faisal Anwar and I began our investigation of how people were using Twitter as a wayfinding tool...

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Data Creep in Schools & Daycares in Waterfront Toronto’s Quayside? Where’s...

Data tracking in schools and daycares? We should be very concerned as to the scope and scale to which Google has already colonized our children's futures, via its dominance in the ed-tech space, the...

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On JK Rowling and the Value of Listening

I didn’t really like the Harry Potter novels when I first started reading them. My kids consumed them. I read them as I teach children’s lit. Skimmed more like as the ‘voice’ and tone of the novels,...

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