Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference

by gtdonovan on November 30, 2011 at 12:29 pm · Filed under conference, CUNY, policing, privacy, security, surveillance, youth

12/1/11>>2:00-8:00PM>>CUNY Graduate Center>>MORE INFO

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Federal Reserve Board: Polarization, Immigration, Education: What’s Behind The Dramatic Decline in Youth Employment?

by gtdonovan on November 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm · Filed under education, Federal Researve Board, FEDS, immigration, link, methodology, participation, polarization, SecurityPod, work, youth

From the abstract: “This paper presents updated trends in teen employment and participation across multiple demographic characteristics, and argues that, in addition to immigration, occupational polarization in the U.S. adult labor market has resulted in increased competition for jobs that teens traditionally hold. Testing various supply and demand explanations for the decline since the mid-1980s, I find that demand factors can explain at least half of the decline unexplained by the business cycle, and that supply factors can explain much of the remaining decline.”

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British Foreign Secretary On E-Commerce and Blurred Geographies

by gtdonovan on November 14, 2011 at 1:47 pm · Filed under boundaries, commerce, cybercity, cybercrime, cyberwar, e-commerce, geoeconomics, geography, quotes, uk, William Hague

From British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s 10/18/2011 guest editorial in Spiegel :

Web-based industry has already become a critical part of our economies. The UK’s industry is already worth £100 billion, accounting for 8% of our total GDP, and is forecast to grow at 10 percent over the next four years. Globally, e-commerce sees $8 trillion change hands each year …

Our reliance on cyber blurs geographical boundaries, breaks down traditional cultural and religious divides, brings families and friends closer together and enables contact between those who share common interests or concerns.

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PewResearch: Old Prosper Relative to Young With 47:1 Age-Based Wealth Gap

by gtdonovan on November 13, 2011 at 1:56 pm · Filed under employment, identity, link, prosperity, wealth gap, work, youth

According to the report: “As a result of these divergent trends, in 2009 the typical household headed by the older adult had $170,494 in net worth, compared with just $3,662 for the typical household headed by the younger adult. People generally accumulate wealth as they age, so it is not unusual to find large age-based gaps on this measure. However, the current gap is unprecedented. In 1984, the age-based wealth gap had been 10:1. By 2009, it had ballooned to 47:1.”

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The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?

by gtdonovan on November 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm · Filed under animation, censorship, commerce, cyberactivism, cyberutopian, digital captives, digital renegades, Evgeny Morozov, governance, Internet, InternetPod, participation, privacy, RSA, surveillance, youth

From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):

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