Tag: Surveillance
Webcams in nursing home rooms may deter elder abuse – but...
Clara Berridge, University of Washington and Karen Levy, Cornell University
Mary Ann Papp’s daughter Lisa was worried about her 75-year-old mother.
A foot infection seemed to...
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after...
Stephen Groening, University of Washington
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian...
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now...
Why it’s so hard to #DeleteFacebook: Constant psychological boosts keep you...
S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State University; Bingjie Liu, Pennsylvania State University; Carlina DiRusso, Pennsylvania State University, and Michael Krieger, Pennsylvania State University
Here we go...
Our laws don’t do enough to protect our health data
Sharona Hoffman, Case Western Reserve University
Have you ever wondered why your computer often shows you ads that seem tailor-made for your interests? The answer...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
