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Over the past few years I’ve observed, with great interest, my students’ varying opinions about their identity and behaviour online. And because I teach professional, post-graduate industry courses, I have different expectations of maturity from 20-something university graduates than I would for at-risk teens.  A person in their mid to late twenties, seeking a career [...]

As some of you know, I’ve been following Larry Lessig for many years now and frequently applaud his ideas and contributions to emergent thinking around copyright, content and the commons.  I’m so pleased that he’s reaching an ever larger audience thanks to stuff like this. For those of you who are new to Lessig, these [...]

A new report from PEW Internet illuminates some surprising trends about teens and social media. Of these findings:

Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
Girls continue to dominate written content [...]

My article below was originally published in Mindjack Magazine online.

October 28, 2002 | There has never been a better time to read the work of [...]