Contents
Preface xi 1 Individual Rights
Toward a Digital Bill of Rights 3
The Internet of Things Has Arrived — and So Have Massive Security Issues 7 Andrew Rose, Wired, January 11, 2013
How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined 10 Alice E. Marwick, The New York Review of Books, January 9, 2014
Constitutional Rights in the Digital Age 16 Nancy Leong, The Huffington Post, July 19, 2014
The Right to Be Forgotten 20 Patricia J. Williams, The Nation, September 17, 2014
How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life 23 Jon Ronson, The New York Times, February 12, 2015
After the Silk Road Conviction, Tor Must Be Protected 31 Craig A. Newman, The Guardian, February 19, 2015
The NSA Debate We Should Be Having 33 Fred Kaplan, Slate, June 8, 2015 2 Culture, Entertainment, and the Media
The Digital Stage and Its Players 39
Generation Y, Dating, and Technology: 44 Digital Natives Struggle to Connect Offline Lauren Lord, Huffington Post Canada, January 14, 2013
The Selfie in the Digital Age: From Social Media to Sexting 48 Holly Peek, Psychiatric Times, December 25, 2014
Smartphones Are Killing Us — and Destroying Public Life 51 Henry Grabar, Salon.com, November 2, 2013
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What’s Next for Art in the Digital Age: 55 A Conversation to Be Continued Lori Kozlowski, Forbes, June 18, 2014
Her Story: The Computer Game Where True Detective Meets Google 58 Keith Stuart, The Guardian, February 27, 2015
Beyond Cute Cats: How BuzzFeed Is Reinventing Itself 61 Jennifer Saba, Reuters, February 23, 2014
Content and Its Discontents 65 James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014
YouTube at 10: How an Online Video Site 67 Ate the Pop Culture Machine Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post, February 15, 2015
When You ”Literally Can’t Even” Understand Your Teenager 71 Amanda Hess, The New York Times, June 9, 2015 3 Education and the Brain
The E-volution of Education and Thought 77
Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? 81 Christina Bonnington, Wired, March 6, 2013
Inside the Flipped Classroom 84 Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 2013
Educational Technology Isn’t Leveling the Playing Field 88 Annie Murphy Paul, Slate, July 25, 2014
Will MOOCs Be Flukes? 92 Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, November 7, 2014
What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades? 96 Maria Konnikova, The New York Times, June 2, 2014
Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading in Print. Yes, You Read That Right. 99 Michael S. Rosenwald, The Washington Post, February 22, 2015 Contents vii
Think Fast: Smartwatch Slices Thought 102 Into Eight-Second Bursts Kevin Maney, Newsweek, May 1, 2015
Digital Natives, Yet Strangers to the Web 105 Alia Wong, The Atlantic, April 21, 2015 4 Crime and Justice
Digital Delinquency and Its Repercussions 113
Online Piracy Grows, Reflecting Consumer Trends 118 Tom Risen, U.S. News & World Report, September 18, 2013
When Bullying Goes High-Tech 120 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com, April 15, 2013
Digital Harassment Is the New Means of Domestic Abuse 125 Keli Goff, The Daily Beast, February 10, 2014
The Downfall of the Most Hated Man on the Internet 128 Emily Greenhouse, The New Yorker, January 28, 2014
Minnesota Detectives Crack the Case with Digital Forensics 131 Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, October 6, 2014
Hollywood-Style Surveillance Technology 134 Inches Closer to Reality GW Schultz, The Center for Investigative Reporting, April 11, 2014
Hacker or Spy? In Today’s Cyberattacks, 138 Finding the Culprit Is a Troubling Puzzle Bruce Schneier, The Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 2015
The Dark Web Remains 141 Russell Berman, The Atlantic, February 5, 2015
Eyes Wide Open to Problems Experienced by Black Men 143 Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2015 viii Contents
5 Economy and the Workforce
Surf and Spend Economics 147
Gross Domestic Freebie 151 James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, November 25, 2013
What the Sharing Economy Takes 153 Doug Henwood, The Nation, January 27, 2015
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Emerge as Regulators Try to Keep Up 159 Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, April 8, 2015
Silicon Valley Gender Gap is Widening 161 Jessica Guynn, USA Today, March 26, 2015
Net Neutrality: How the Government Finally Got It Right 165 Tim Wu, The New Yorker, February 5, 2015
How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over 167 Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books, April 2, 2015 6 Politics and Globalism
Virtual War and Peace 179
Welcome to the Age of Digital Imperialism 184 Bill Wasik, The New York Times, June 4, 2015
The Mobile Election: How Smartphones 187 Will Change the 2016 Presidential Race Dylan Byers, Politico, April 1, 2015
Activism or Slacktivism? How Social Media Hurts 189 and Helps Student Activism Kate Essig, St. Louis Public Radio, January 2, 2014
Hashtag Activism Isn’t a Cop-Out 192 Noah Berlatsky, The Atlantic, January 7, 2015 Contents ix
Scholars Re-Examine Arab World’s 196 “Facebook Revolutions” Ursula Lindsey, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2015
How ISIS Succeeds on Social Media Where #StopKony Fails 200 J.M. Berger, The Atlantic, March 16, 2015
When Blasphemy Goes Viral 205 Christopher S. Grenda and Chris Beneke, The New Republic, January 15, 2015
Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges? 209 Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com, March 5, 2015
Bibliography 215
Websites 222
Index 225