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Talking digital footprints with youth

Posted on December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 by Kate

Since being awarded as one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 I have been quite busy with different requests and such like. I was invited to speak to some young people at a primary school about digital footprints and online safety. Talking about the Internet and its challenges is not something I am used…

Digital Division, a commentary on the rich and poor

Posted on October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 by Kate

I’ve recently read an article by the Daily Dot entitled “Privacy is creating a new digital divide between the rich and poor” and it feels problematic. It explores how only the educated and wealthy can afford to be private citizens in the digital. What does it mean to be wealthy in the post-digital age? What…

Engineered Digital Habits

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Kate

“to share anything they want with anyone they want in a natural way” –  Mark Zuckerberg, 2016 – On the back of Facebook’s annual conference, it was this line that has stuck out for me. The belief that our online networks and connections are considered as natural as speaking face-to-face. These semantics do not come…

Being open, private and just less ignorant

Posted on February 5, 2016February 6, 2016 by Kate

I have never really thought of myself as an activist before, for anything. Sure, I have had interests that I have felt quite passionate about, for instance it was about two years ago that I was knee-deep into researching about ‘opening’ the archive into digital environments. Luckily for me, I had a great opportunity to…

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