Communications & Media
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Sweatshop is a powerful game that puts players in the shoes of a factory floor manager in a developing nation. The game tasks you with placing skilled workers and child laborers along a conveyor belt. Continue
MediaShift
Schools across the country are mass-ordering iPads for their pupils in an effort to innovate in classrooms. Thing is, innovation goes beyond merely buying the tools. Continue
MediaShift
Has society become so dependent on technology that it has become lazy about memorizing the basics, like a best friend's phone number or where countries are located on a map? Continue
Bill Moyers
With radio and television dominated by mega-corporations, Americans have turned to the Internet for news -- but a recent court ruling gives Big Telecom more control over broadband. FCC commissioner Michael Copps on 'net neutrality', the fight for more democratic media and the future of journalism. Veteran regulator William K. Black, who says Wall Street is already been breaking current rules. Continue
MediaShift
Skype, once a safe place for journalists and sources to talk, has been the focus of surveillance in places like Egypt and China. Skype isn't the only web space where sources could be endangered. EFF's Jillian C. York dives into other technology that could present safety problems Continue
Wired Science
The X Prize Foundation is attracting everyone from multimillion-dollar corporations to small-time inventors and creating a new world of revolution through competition. Continue
MediaShift
Some experts believe that personal gadgets are making us mentally ill and are worsening other problems such as narcissism, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. But there's help. Continue
To The Contrary
For the first time in U.S. history, white newborns are outnumbered by babies of color; the U.S. Army recently made history by officially opening jobs in combat battalions to women, but direct ground combat roles are still exclusive to men; To The Contrary travels to China to explore the role the U.S. Foreign Service plays in diplomacy overseas. Continue
MediaShift
Does the First Amendment protect our right to record public events, like the Occupy Wall Street protests? That's the contention of Josh Stearns, writing for PBS MediaShift in this editorial, as he says he has documented 75 arrests of journalists who were simply recording Occupy protests in the nation. Continue
NOVA
Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win the game? Continue
MediaShift
Have you always wanted to cut the cord? Here's a whole digital book that teaches you how to do it. Continue
Washington Week
Thursday, July 25, 2012 at 1 pm Eastern. Join Gwen Ifill for a live chat to discuss the 2012 Election, Washington Week and the PBS NewsHour and more. Continue
MediaShift
More movie studios are reaching out to viewers with Facebook and Twitter to cuts ad costs and increase returns. Lionsgate, for instance, spent $15 million to $20 million less in TV ads on "The Hunger Games" because of social campaigns that worked. Continue
Bill Moyers
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided. Continue
MediaShift
Libraries across the nation have struggled with tight budgets and strict restrictions from publishers in their work to bring more digital books to patrons. Will libraries and publishers ever reach a middle ground? Continue
MediaShift
Gary Moore, an actor in the new Netflix series directed by David Fincher, gives the inside story of an actor's life in digital Hollywood, with the advent of streaming video, Skype auditions and new platforms for entertainment. Continue
MediaShift
Can police stop you from recording a public event with your cell phone? A letter from the Justice Department says no; your right to record is protected by the First Amendment. But the American public is still getting mixed signals on this topic. Continue
MediaShift
Even allowing a Facebook or Twitter comment that's considered insulting to the Thai government could be a crime under Thai law. A case involving a Thai journalist accused of allowing anti-government comments on her independent news site could set a new precedent for internet freedom in Thailand and overseas. Continue
MediaShift
Public libraries want to lend more e-books, but book publishers are worried about losing sales. Still, libraries are pushing on and transforming themselves in the digital age. Continue
America Revealed
On Yul's journey he has been surprised to find that America is still making things and is still the leader in many of its fields of expertise. Americans are continuously innovating, Google, Intel, Facebook, some of the largest companies in the world all started in America. The fact is, we manufacture more now than we ever have in our history. Continue
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