A presentation on this important First Amendment case (Media Alliance is one of the 19 plaintiffs) prepared by Joe Nicholson. First Unitarian vs NSA helped to end mass blanket telephone metadata sweeps by the NSA.
Category Archives: Backgrounders and Toolkits
Handy Resources
Another Take on the IP Transition
IP Transition – Phones in the 21st Century
A report from Public Knowledge and the Center for Media Justice on the transformation from legacy phone lines to mobile communications – and the winners and losers in the process.
Data Due Process
Report from the NYU School of Law – “Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms”
Undressing Patriarchy: A Report from the Institute of Development Studies
Interesting report from a Brighton UK Conference on patriarchy, the system, and how to undo the harmful effects on girls, boys, men, women and the transgendered.
Sexy Avatars and The Real World
A fascinating study at Stanford University documents the impact of using sexy avatars in computer games on female self-objectification.
Copyright and Fair Use
A handy guide to fair use and copyright for multimedia producers from LAMP (The Learning About Multimedia Project).
Doubling Digital Opportunities: Enhancing the Inclusion of Women and Girls in the Information Society
Doubling Digital Opportunities: Enhancing the Inclusion of Women & Girls in the Information Society frames the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving gender equality in an era of rapid technological change. It closely examines critical gender issues with respect to new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and broadband. Most important, it shows ways in which we can further advance the sustainable development agenda by promoting the use of new technologies in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. From ,