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On the rise of youth surveillance via digital tracking: 2 perspectives

By Toni De Guzman and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers TONI: With the advances of technology, privacy is being compromised to a greater extent through tracking-based applications such as Find My, Life360, and others. How does this affect parental relationships with children? Some parents may think they are protecting their children by tracking their activity, but in […]

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thinking about the aggressive promise of ChatGPT

By Jaqueline McLeod Rogers It’s coming. Actually it’s already come to the internet but there are glitches and limitations. Sometimes “ChatGPT is at capacity right now” –which means there are too many users to accommodate you on the site. There have also been comments on the inability of this AI chatbot to include important academic […]

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Mini-matrix: Controlling and surveilling kids’ online activity

by Sohpie Ashton Kayte Thomas explores setting boundaries with her kids surrounding their internet use and presence online in blog post, Internet safety and your kids Perhaps specific to the times to the generation I was born in, I learned about ‘stranger danger’ on the internet at the same time that I learned about ‘stranger […]

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Probing products : what are we buying? drink flavour enhancers

by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers I switched to zero-cal water flavor enhancers a few years ago– surely a nominal change–better for health than soda and coming in a small bottle so not producing mounds of plastic or glass in packaging. The more I have grown to like these things–orange, cherry and grape–the more my resolve to […]