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Blizzard’s Snow Job: Security About As Tight As Parental Controls

November 14, 2012 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Nov. 14, 2012 Call it karma, payback, or just ‘got caught,’ the class action lawsuit against Blizzard Entertainment (makers of mega-hits like Diablo, World of Warcraft, Starcraft etc) is really about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: Activision, Authenticator, Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard law suit, childrens online privacy protection act, commodification, compromised accounts, COPPA, Cybersecurity, data breach, data hacks, deceptive trade practices, digital privacy, Ethics-Gaming, FTC, gaming, gaming addiction, gaming violence, kids data privacy, Kids-gaming-secret-codes, Media management, MMORPG, multiplayer games, new proposed FTC rules, opt-out, parental controls, parental permissions, parenting, personal information, privacy-data-youth, security breaches, Terms of Use, U13, undermining parents, workarounds, World-of-Warcraft, WoW

Kids’ Gaming Ethics and Immersive Virtual Worlds (Part 2)

July 25, 2008 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Are "cheat codes" a symbol of impatient multi-taskers incapable of working through frustration that need to leap frog over the hard part of life? Or a conduit to open new challenges at higher levels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Asuka-Martin, Avatars-behaving-badly, BlogHer-Second-Life, Cheat-Codes, Cheats, danah-boyd, Dizzywood, Easter-eggs, Elf-Island, Ethics-Gaming, ethics-immersive-worlds, Game-Cheats, GameBoy-cheats, Good-Play-Project, Guitar-Hero-Cheats, HulalaGirls, internet-chat-moderation-kids, Izzy-Neis, Kids-Virtual-worlds, Michael-Carter, moral-panic, NetFamily-News, online-communities-kids, Product Placement, RezEd, Sandra-Foyt, serious-games, Teen-Second-Life, Webkinz, workarounds, YPulse, Zookazoo

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26 Sep

Started FREE @knightfdn AP course "How to Use ChatGPT & other Generative #AI Tools in Newsrooms" to debrief myself in time for media literacy week on the pros/cons of low/high risk automation practices & protocols #MediaLitWk #medialiteracy #NewsLiteracy

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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