Carmen Maria
@carmenmaria
researcher/designer/sociologist
Carmen Maria
Teaching Privacy
teachingprivacy.org
surveillance and data privacy education
Information and education on online privacy and preventative measures to protect and make better decisions regarding your data online
Building the culture we want requires a radical change in mindset, and action. The dream of a free and open Internet isn't dead—but in 2025, it's definitely more complicated.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
Post-Naive Internet - Mozilla & Unlearning
Even our bodies get into the act in cyberspace. Much as we might dearly love to sometimes, we can’t leave ourselves behind when we get online. Even when someone is just playing around or in disguise, something true is revealed, it is never completely invented. [...] What is it about cyberspace? It conceals what gets in the way of revealing. No... See more
Cyberfeminism Index
We can never realllly detach from our identities, even behind the veil of a computer screen.
Research on Teaching Reformation of the Database Curriculum for Private Colleges and Universities Teaching Non-computer Majors | Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Intelligence Information Processing and Trusted Computing
Feng-Ling Wangdl.acm.org
Popular media often characterize youths’ use of social media as overwhelmingly negative, reporting that teens engage in reckless, unsafe behaviors with little thought to their online privacy or safety. Typically, these popular media accounts are based on adults’ prescriptive views of youths’ attitudes and behaviors.
Just a moment...
surveillance and data privacy education
“Don’t be dumb — that’s the rule I try to live by.”
Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with dating apps, which have acted like a wayward meteor on the now dinosaur-like rituals of courtship.
Nancy Jo Sales • Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse
History of hookups?
SCIRP Open Access
scirp.org
surveillance and data privacy education
Educating Students’ Privacy Decision Making through Information Ethics Curriculum
“We are in uncharted territory” when it comes to Tinder et al., says Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. “There have been two major transitions” in heterosexual mating “in the last four million years,” he says. “The first was around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago,... See more
Nancy Jo Sales • Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse
A new era of romanticism, love, and intimacy - uncharted territory, prompted by the collision of hookup culture and dating apps.
I want to understand how researchers and designers describe the changing human experience in a world shaped by AI, especially through small, intentional, or “cozy” digital spaces.