http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/02/10/is-googling-racist/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/02/10/is-googling-racist/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:52:21 +0000 Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/?p=145 This article quickly retracts the alarmism of the title and shows how the studies to which it refers conclude that the internet, in tracking our behaviour, is just reflective of societal racism… Not the happiest of findings. In the context of this module, however, it’s interesting that you can still give articles titles like this, that we don’t always trust the tools that we always use, and that the democracy of the internet can betray unpleasant facts about the society it represents.

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/02/10/is-googling-racist/feed/ 0 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/23/google-report-reveals-continued-rise-in-us-government-requests-for-data/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/23/google-report-reveals-continued-rise-in-us-government-requests-for-data/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:28:00 +0000 Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/23/google-report-reveals-continued-rise-in-us-government-requests-for-data/ a la Hand…although it’s interesting that Google reports this information regularly…

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