I am the resident Digital Literacy Advocate or "Code Evangelist" at Codecademy, a new online learning platform. I'm a media theorist, specializing in the digital environment. I have written a dozen books on media and society, including Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and the upcoming Present Shock.
I also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and digital_nation.
Blog Posts
I tried to write a single piece on raising digital kids at home -- but childhood is just too epic a journey for a single piece. Still, the overall strategy for technology in the home is the same from...
Read More.When I was a kid, the main reason my mom limited our television time was x-rays. Back in 1968, when I was seven years old, the same age my daughter is now, a big study on radioactive emissions from cathode ray tubes had just come out, and so our new color Philco had become the enemy. My brother...
Read More.I was raised back in the day when teachers showed 16mm films in the classroom. It was a special event: the A/V librarian would wheel in an aqua-colored Bell...
Read More.Ask kids what Facebook is for, and they'll tell you it's there to help them make friends. And, on the surface anyway, that's what it looks like. Of course, anyone who has poked a bit deeper or thought a bit longer about it understands that people programming Facebook aren't sitting around...
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