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Andrew Hope, “Panopticism, Play and the Resistance of Surveillance: Case Studies of the Observation of Student Internet Use in UK Schools”

This 2005 article is based on a study of UK post-primary schools: the researcher observed and interviewed students, teachers, and staff about methods of monitoring what students do on school computers and students’ resistance of these methods. He begins by … Continue reading

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Sherry Turkle, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”

This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle … Continue reading

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