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Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?
Despite the hype around MOOCs to date, there are many similarities between MOOC research and…
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What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?
– in EducationWhy are there such vast amounts of resources invested in education technology without substantial evidence…
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Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
This mass connectivity has been one crucial ingredient for some significant changes in how work…
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What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs
while a lot is known about the mechanics of group learning in smaller and traditionally…
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Outside the cities and towns, rural Britain’s internet is firmly stuck in the 20th century
The quality of rural internet access in the UK, or lack of it, has long…
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
People are very often unaware of how much data is gathered about them—let alone the…
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The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda
Editors must now decide not only what to publish and where, but how long it…
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Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal
– in DevelopmentThe geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been…
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What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?
As geographic content and geospatial information becomes increasingly integral to our everyday lives, places that…
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Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all
– in DevelopmentWikipedia is often seen as a great equaliser. But it’s starting to look like global…
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Young people are the most likely to take action to protect their privacy on social networking sites
So are young people completely unconcerned about their privacy online, gaily granting access to everything…
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014
Informing the global discussions on information control research and practice in the fields of censorship,…