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“Pew Research Center’s Global Indicators Database holds roughly 20 years and more than 600,000 interviews worth of data on public opinion and attitudes from more than 60 publics around the world. The database contains information ranging from views of global powers like the United States and China, the world economy, ratings of world leaders and …
How to Geek – “Have you ever wished you could download Wikipedia in its entirety, and have a copy of it for yourself? There are a handful of ways to do just that — all you need is a third-party program and about 150 gigabytes of storage…”
LawSites: “It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40…”
Techdirt – Cathy Gellis – “One of the fundamental difficulties in doing policy advocacy, including, and perhaps especially tech policy advocacy, is that we are not only speaking of technology, which can often seem inscrutable and scary to non-experts, but law, which itself is an intricate and often opaque system. This complicated nature of our …
The New Republic: “A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries…How did cultural globalization in the twentieth century travel along such a one-way path? And why is the U.S.—that globe-bestriding colossus with more than 700 overseas bases—so strangely isolated? The answer, Sam Lebovic’s new book, A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the …
Washington Post: “Meet the librarians fighting bans and scrambling to preserve children’s freedom to read..Slowly — over months of meetings, investigations and secret conversations with fearful librarians across her counties — she came to understand the disturbing reality. Administrators, afraid of attracting controversy, were quietly removing books from library shelves before they could be challenged. …
“This website is created and maintained by Sarah Lawsky, a tax law professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The website uses Dash and Python and is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. Q: What does this website do? A: It generates multiple-choice practice problems for federal income tax and partnership …
Sludge: “The Association of American Publishers filed suit to block a new Maryland law that aims to increase public libraries’ access to e-books, with support from a powerful copyright lobbying group…Libraries and schools worldwide have been increasingly lending out e-books and audiobooks, even before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Over 500 million copies of digital …
Associations Between Online Instruction in Lateral Reading Strategies and Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Among College Students. AERA Open January-December 2021, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1 –17 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211038937 “College students, and adults in general, may find it hard to identify trustworthy information amid the proliferation of false news and misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. In …
Open Culture: “Yayoi Kusama turned 93 this past Tuesday, and she remains not just artistically productive but globally beloved. Her work itself continues to appeal to an ever wider range of viewers of all nationalities and ages. “Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is sometimes called ‘the princess of polka dots’,” says the brief …
Wineburg, Sam and breakstone, joel and mcgrew, sarah and Smith, Mark and Ortega, Teresa, Lateral Reading on the Open Internet (November 15, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936112 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3936112 “Young people turn to the Internet to become informed about the issues that concern them and their communities. How can they learn to distinguish credible information …
Internet Archive Blogs: “As the war intensifies in Ukraine, volunteers from around the world are working to archive digital content at risk of destruction or manipulation. The Internet Archive is supporting several preservation efforts including the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) initiative launched in early March. “When we think about the internet, we think the …
