Digital Natives, by a digital native from Germany
I am proud to be invited to write a guest post here for the Digital Natives blog of Harvard’s Berkman Center. It all started with sending an email to Urs Gasser, who is one of the heads of the team. As...
View ArticleWho’s Hussein?
Switch your name on Facebook, and the New York Times will declare a national movement. Maybe that’s not exactly how it happens, but a recent Times article suggests that changing your Facebook moniker...
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Unveiling the Veil – on the web
The veil? And that’s where many of us would simply end the discussion. The issue of the veil is one that raises a red flag for many; it has on innumerable occasions lead to heightened emotions that at...
View ArticleWeb-less Woes
February 2nd 10:00 AM: In my hotel room in Amsterdam – I’m here with a school trip to an MUN (Model United Nations) Conference – and packing my bags for our return flight to Cairo in the evening. 10:15...
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I CAN HAS POLITICAL PWERZ?
According to the web-comic he posted online , Sean Travis Tevis was fed up with his anti-abortion, censorship promoting, anti-gay marriage, pro-intelligent design state representative, Arlen Siegfreid....
View Articleazn.play: a conversation with blogger Qin Zhi Lau
Rest your eyes — we’re going audio-only this week. Digital Natives reporter Nikki Leon chatted online with Qin Zhi Lau, a second-year Princeton student who runs the blog aznplay.com in his spare time....
View ArticleThings to Make and Do: ‘Fresh Brain’ and the Community Conundrum
This week’s theme is creators, and it’s one of my favorites: I love thinking about the ways that incredibly simple tools empower young people (empower everyone, really) to create or comment upon art,...
View ArticleiPhone on the Brain: Technology and the Extended Mind
Like Diana, I too am in the middle finals week. But as a science major, I am mired exams instead of papers, and my brain has been clutter of symbols and numbers — amino acid structures, Fourier series,...
View ArticleIntense Togetherness: Paper, Screens, and Reading
Screens aren’t paper: obvious, but intensely forgettable. Since I’ve found my way into a very odd class this semester—an investigation of paper as technology—I’ve been remembering this more often....
View ArticleHub of the University: Searching for HarvardLife Online
On Wednesday April 1, 2009, the cool, blue color scheme of TuftsLife.com was tinted a more familiar shade of crimson. “That’s right, TuftsLife is now HarvardLife,” announced a banner the homepage,...
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