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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Professor Ian Bogost was quoted in the article “Big Brother: College Edition” and subtitled “Student blasts Georgia Tech for monitoring his social media accounts” in the Atlanta Journal Constitution December 21, 2017.
“Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech, who also has a significant Twitter presence, disagreed. He posted an article by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which first reported the story, and said, ‘shameful, astounding behavior from my employer.’”
Read full article Big Brother: College Edition