technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
Several pieces have been floating around in the last week or so on virtual crime. It centers around a basic question: is interpersonal crime committed in a virtual space really crime if there is no real-world corollary?
There’s been a lot of interest in one of the cases I mentioned last week in which it was discovered that school officials were spying on kids and their families in their own homes by surreptitiously activating webcams on school-provided laptops.
The Guardian’s DataBlog: If there’s a picture of more responsible journalism, I’ve never seen it. Now the only question that remains – where’s the American equivalent?
A University of Minnesota graduate student in sociology was recently jailed for protecting the identity of his research subjects – radical environmentalists and animal rights activists.
An insurance company, Manulife, has withdrawn a woman’s long-term sick leave benefits associated with a diagnosis of major depression after viewing pictures of her on Facebook.
The students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are on strike today, for one of the unlikeliest of reasons: out-of-state tuition waivers.