Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
Agence France Presse July 22, 2009. "Our federal government will be unable to combat these threats without a more coordinated, sustained effort to increase cybersecurity expertise in the federal workforce," the authors wrote.
David Bollier, On the Commons. June 30, 2009. The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
Sarah Ingersoll, Meaningful Media AlterNet: PEEK. May 13, 2009. Everyone focuses on the role of technology and new media in the Obama Administration, but what about culture?
Handan T. Satiroglu, The Wip. April 13, 2009. iPods and Blackberries offer instant access to a virtual world, but are technological gadgets keeping people apart and breaking down society?
Charley Richardson, Labor Notes. March 11, 2009. Many politicians fall for the allure of simplistic technical solutions to a complex social problem. But technology is rarely the answer.
Judith Levine, The American Prospect. February 7, 2009. Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness.
Brianne Goodspeed, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 30, 2009. Finally, a book for the millions of people who realize that making the shift to sustainability is a matter of economic and ecological survival.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. January 13, 2009. The news is out that Obama intends to nominate his technology adviser, Julius Genachowski to head the FCC.
Maura Moynihan, AlterNet. January 12, 2009. China has a vast intelligence-gathering operation of Chinese citizens recruited to spy on and hack into U.S. computers.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 6, 2009. It's just awkward (and funny) to listen to Republican leaders talk about how hip they are to the tools the kids are using on the tubes.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: Media and Technology. December 5, 2008. Who needs good science coverage, after all, since nothing important happens in that area.
Bernard Lo, M.D., Science Progress. November 10, 2008. The president and the nation need expert, thoughtful, balanced advice on difficult bioethical issues.
Staff, The Uptake AlterNet: PEEK. October 31, 2008. Here's how you can add your phone to our network of eyes and ears across the country now through Election Day, in just 15 minutes.
Ellen Goodman, Washington Post Writers Group. July 18, 2008. We plan our own pensions and assemble our own cheap furniture. I pray the Internet ad for a do-it-yourself eye surgery kit is a hoax.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.
Jayati Vora, AlterNet. May 23, 2008. More and more voices from around the globe are finding a place on the Internet -- even in countries where Web filters and censorship are the norm.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. May 22, 2008. We need to organize and actively make things uncomfortable for the companies trying to regulate our use of online technologies.
