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Cal Newport in the New Yorker: “An Exhausting Year In and Out of the Office”
December 27, 2023 Writing in the New Yorker, CDE's Cal Newport's year-end reflection looks back at the era of digital and hybrid work and ahead at how to mitigate the intensity of the demands of t
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Cal Newport in the New Yorker: “It’s time to dismantle the Technopoly“
December 18, 2023 Writing in the New Yorker, CDE's Cal Newport reflects on the recent history of societal responses to the introduction and incorporation of new technologies. He argues that curati
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Chander shares research data on use of TikTok by members of Congress
CDE Affiliate faculty member Anupam Chander writes in Tech Policy Press that perhaps contrary to expectation, fewer than one out of every ten members of Congress uses a TikTok account for posting con
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Laura DeNardis, PhD appointed inaugural director of the Center for Digital Ethics
The Office of the Provost at Georgetown University has announced the appointment of Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., as the inaugural director of the Center for Digital Ethics. The center, established in 2
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CDE’s Cal Newport delivers the Crown Lecture in Ethics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University
Photos courtesy of Duke University On Thursday, October 5, Professor Cal Newport delivered the Crown Lecture in Ethics at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in Durham, NC.
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CDE to co-sponsor Oct. 16 book talk by Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech
10/16 update: This event was canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date. Tech journalist Brian Merchant comes to town (and campus) to talk about his new book Blood in the Machine, which is lon
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Chander interviewed for NPR “Marketplace” report on “how EU regulation is changing tech”
On September 12, 2023, CDE affiliate faculty member Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law School, was interviewed for a story on "how EU regul
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CDE co-sponsors panel on “Digital Ethics and the Freedom of Thought” featuring renowned international human rights lawyer and author Susie Alegre
CDE and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) held an insightful and open conversation on “Digital Ethics & The Freedom of Thought” on Monday, September 18, 2023, from 11:00 AM –
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Cal Newport in The New Yorker: We Don’t Need a New Twitter
Writing in The New Yorker, Cal Newport explores the effort to create a Twitter alternative and asks "Why is it so important to create a better version of Twitter in the first place?" His reflect
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