Month: February 2013

Scholar of Internet Freedom Denied Tenure for Human Rights Advocacy

On By ChristianIn Commentary1 Comment

(Or: Yale will be next.) Noted freedom of expression scholar Cherian George has been denied tenure by the Singaporean government against the wishes of his faculty. His error was explaining basic tenets of political philosophy in an editorial.  I’m writing about it because this is an American problem. Like Prof. George, I am also a …

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Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries

On By danah boydIn Talks2 Comments

At the ASTD TechKnowledge conference, I was asked to reflect on networked learning and how tomorrow's workers will challenge today's organizations. I did some reflecting on this topic and decided to draw on two strands of my research over the last decade - startup culture and youth culture - to talk about how those outside of traditional …

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