by Caroline Isautier | Dec 20, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
This December 19, 2022, the US FTC (Federal Trade Commission) announced Epic Games must pay a $520 million fine due to deceptive design practices and privacy violations in their Fortnite video game. Cam Adair, the well-known video gaming addiction advocate broke the...
by Caroline Isautier | Nov 21, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
After it was found, in November 2022, that the bankrupt crypto currency exchange FTX had no financial reporting whatsoever, despite having big name investors like Black Rock, Sequoia, the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and SoftBank, its safe to assume another round of...
by Caroline Isautier | Oct 25, 2022 | Digital Citizenship, Events
We tracked & echoed online public conversations on Twitter, Facebook & TikTok about the 2022 Toronto race for mayor and issues surrounding the race from the top candidates, interest groups, established and emerging media outlets and concerned residents. We...
by Caroline Isautier | Jun 29, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
Tech companies like Google (Alphabet) and Facebook (Meta) have become giants and have had a free ride evolving in an unregulated context for the past 25 years. While producing easy to use and often free products that charm consumers , they’ve been able to...
by Caroline Isautier | May 24, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
We’re beginning here a repository of media articles on the impact on mental health of kids or teens using cell phones, notably to access social media and YouTube. Meet the parents who refuse to give kids cell phones: May 9, 2022 in The Washington Post For...
by Caroline Isautier | May 19, 2022 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
A study, published in Nature, May 11, 2022, seems to claim playing video games makes kids smart. The study looked at 9,855 children from the USA who took part in the ABCD study – a long-term study of brain development and health of children in the United States, aged...
