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Canadian Press. (2018). Can U.S. border guards search your phone? Yes, and here are some details on how.

January 21, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Agents can demand a password to open your phone, without probable cause, Nielsen confirmed during the hearing. However, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) staff attorney Sophia Cope says the directive, which she calls confusing, also allows you to refuse to do so. That, of course, is not without its consequences she says in a statement to CBC News. Your device could be seized or detained. The border agent could delay your travel or even deny entry if you are not a U.S. citizen.” (¶ 9)

Logue (2016). Trump used as taunt against students and minority groups.

January 17, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Students take their cues for how to act from what they see happening out in the world, and ‘as [these incidents are] increasingly part of the national scene, I suspect we’ll see more of this,’ Ervin said. ‘College campuses are incubators of citizens of tomorrow, and they’ll take part in what they think is the political process.'” (¶ 15)

Russell (2009). The Functions Of A Teacher. (Unpopular Essays.)

December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“In our more highly organised world we face a new problem. Something called education is given to everybody, usually by the State, but sometimes by the Churches. The teacher has thus become, in the vast majority of cases, a civil servant obliged to carry out the behests of men who have not his learning, who have no experience of dealing with the young, and whose only attitude towards education is that of the propagandist.” (p 110)

Franklin (2004). Chapter 3 (The Real World Of Technology.)

December 23, 2017December 23, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“One of the reasons I emphasize the link between public policies related to the provision of infrastructures and the spread of technology is the following: Rarely are there public discussions about the merits or problems of adopting a particular technology. … Regardless of who might own railways or transmission lines, radio [page break] … frequencies or satellites, the public sphere provides the space, the permission, the regulation, and the finances for much of the research. It is the public sphere that grants the ‘right of way.’ It seems to be high time that we, as citizens, become concerned about the granting of such technological rights of way.” (p 64-65)

Marcuse (1991). The Closing of the Political Universe. (One-Dimensional Man.)

November 21, 2017November 24, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of ‘the good?'” (p 44)

Franklin (2004). Chapter 1 (The Real World Of Technology.)

November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“It is my conviction that nothing short of a global reformation of major social forces and of the social contract can end this historical period of profound and violent transformations, and give a manner of security to the world and to its citizens. … The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice and on the enforcement of limits to power.” (p 5)

Brubaker (1996). Nationalizing states in the old ‘New Europe’ – and the new.

September 20, 2017January 18, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Yet far from furthering the assimilation or even securing the loyalty of borderland East Slavs, Poland’s inept nationalizing policies and practices in the interwar period had just the opposite effect, producing by the end of the period what had not existed at the beginning: a consolidated, strongly anti-Polish Belarusian and — to an even greater extent — Ukrainian national consciousness. This happened through heavy-handed efforts to nationalize the land, the schools, and the churches of the region, and through the harsh repression of Belarusian and Ukrainian nationalist and social-revolutionary movements.” (p 100)

A Quick Comparison of Conference Apps

May 18, 2017May 25, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“One should be left with at least one question: why would this conference app need so many permissions?”