EPISODE · Oct 18, 2020 · 1H 11M
The Internet of Things with Laura DeNardis Ph.D., Globally Recognized Internet Scholar
from MindBodySpace · host Dr. Juna Bobby
Laura Denardis is the author of The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch, Yale University Press. We discuss what this means for our everyday lives and she gives us practical and simple tips to to protect ourselves. “As always, with any internet issue. It's a tension between the great conveniences and the great economic benefit and the human aspects that are you know, it's just so convenient to use them and it's helping us to live better lives. There's a tension between that and the danger of insecure devices.” The Internet of Things or IoT refers to all the physical devices in the world that are connected to the Internet, collecting data every second of every day. Laura E. DeNardis is Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. where she also serves as Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab. She authored six books and numerous articles on the political implications of Internet technical architecture and governance. Dr. DeNardis is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. "This brilliant and essential book does nothing less than alter our paradigm for thinking about the internet.”—Anupam Chander, author of The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce “This is a must-read.” —Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer “With more things than people connected to the Internet, we enter a cyber-physical world of opportunities and threats. Laura DeNardis is the perfect guide to this strange new world.”—Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University “A crucial read for understanding the unseen but powerful mechanisms and standards which shape security and policy issues impacting everyone.”—Marietje Schaake, Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 WEBSITE Information on The Internet in Everything: Freedom in a World with no Off Switch Her recent article on The Conversation: 'Internet of things' could be an unseen threat to elections
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Laura Denardis is the author of The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch, Yale University Press. We discuss what this means for our everyday lives and she gives us practical and simple tips to to protect ourselves. “As always, with any internet issue. It's a tension between the great conveniences and the great economic benefit and the human aspects that are you know, it's just so convenient to use them and it's helping us to live better lives. There's a tension between that and the danger of insecure devices.” The Internet of Things or IoT refers to all the physical devices in the world that are connected to the Internet, collecting data every second of every day. Laura E. DeNardis is Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. where she also serves as Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab. She authored six books and numerous articles on the political implications of Internet technical architecture and governance. Dr. DeNardis is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. "This brilliant and essential book does nothing less than alter our paradigm for thinking about the internet.”—Anupam Chander, author of The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce “This is a must-read.” —Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer “With more things than people connected to the Internet, we enter a cyber-physical world of opportunities and threats. Laura DeNardis is the perfect guide to this strange new world.”—Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University “A crucial read for understanding the unseen but powerful mechanisms and standards which shape security and policy issues impacting everyone.”—Marietje Schaake, Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 WEBSITE Information on The Internet in Everything: Freedom in a World with no Off Switch Her recent article on The Conversation: 'Internet of things' could be an unseen threat to elections
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