Cloaked websites: propaganda, cyber-racism and epistemology in the digital era

This article analyzes cloaked websites, which are sites published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to disguise deliberately a hidden political agenda. Drawing on the insights of critical theory and the Frankfurt School, this article examines the way in which cloaked websites conceal a variety of political agendas from a range of perspectives. Of particular interest here are cloaked white supremacist sites that disguise cyber-racism. The use of cloaked websites to further political ends raises important questions about knowledge production and epistemology in the digital era. These cloaked sites emerge within a social and political context in which it is increasingly difficult to parse fact from propaganda, and this is a particularly pernicious feature when it comes to the cyber-racism of cloaked white supremacist sites. The article concludes by calling for the importance of critical, situated political thinking in the evaluation of cloaked websites

The Zuckerberg Interview: Extended cut

https://epublications.marquette.edu/zuckerberg_files_videos/1163/thumbnail.jp

Mark Zuckerberg\u27s awkward afternoon with Morgan Freeman

https://epublications.marquette.edu/zuckerberg_files_videos/1160/thumbnail.jp

Mark Zuckerberg: Why we don\u27t want to build a phone

2013 Mark Zuckerberginterview with CNN Money/Fortune explaining why Facebook does not want to build a phon

Design jam as a pedagogy: teaching design thinking to computer science students at scale

Design thinking is an integral component of HCI education. Yet the scale of undergraduate class sizes and limited teaching resources makes the incorporation of traditional studio-based learning challenging. This paper details our deployment of the Design Jam (DJ); a single-day pedagogical exercise for introducing design thinking to two undergraduate classes of >175 computer science undergraduates. Based on thematic analysis of 77 reflective essays and an online survey, we find evidence that the DJ helped to legitimise the design thinking process, engaged students with designerly activities and fostered transferable skills which were later applied to coursework. Yet difficulties emerged with peer learning between DJ attendees and non-attendees. The paper offers suggestions to prospective DJ facilitators for how the DJ may be leveraged as a means of legitimising design thinking and motivating student engagement and learning among non-designers. Further, how these benefits may be achieved at the scale of modern computer science cohorts and declining instructor/student ratio

The value of top-down communication for organizational performance

We design a laboratory experiment to identify causal performance effects of top-down communication between managers and their subordinates. Our focus lies on communication that resolves uncertainty about the work environment but does not provide task-specific knowledge. Recent articles in the business press report a lack of such communication in real-world organizations and associate it with reduced organizational performance. Our results confirm this observation. We find that top-down communication is a profitable way for managers to increase employee performance in the presence of uncertainty. Specifically, we show that non-communication is the worst option for managers. However, 50 percent of our experimental managers use top-down communication too restrictively. Overall, managers forego 30 percent of their potential profits through non-communication. We show that organizations can overcome this problem by adopting automated information procedures, which are equally effective

The option of self-connection

Self-connectivity is a practice when passengers travel with a combination of tickets where the airline(s) involved do not handle the transfer themselves. Leisure travellers are expected to be one of the segments of demand most likely to build their own travel itineraries with self-connections in order to save in air fares. Thus the few European airports that recently started to facilitate this type of travel are heavily focusing the marketing efforts towards holiday routes. This chapter investigates the implications of this new business strategy from the perspective of the destination airports using data on European holiday markets in the Mediterranean region. Using an analysis of potential self-connectivity based on global airline schedules and passenger booking data, the destination airports are ranked according to the potential benefits from self-connectivity by tapping into new origin markets to which they are not connected in the traditional sense. The results from this chapter have important managerial implications with regards to how airports serving tourist destinations can identify new market opportunities.1049