Kecia Lynn

Kecia Lynn

Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.

This week Nielsen unveiled a new ratings system that will measure Twitter activity and conversation around TV shows. Skeptics say tweets may not fully represent the extent of audiences' involvement.
Announced Monday (Oct. 7), the Alliance for Affordable Internet aims to make basic broadband available for less than five percent of monthly income worldwide. In developing countries, the cost can be up to six times as much.
A small but growing group of atheists is working with an NGO that is introducing multidenominational education in a country where over 90 percent of schools are Catholic.
The northern Spanish city of 180,000 has used an $11 million European Union grant to install technology that has transformed it into a "smart city" model for other municipalities.
A journalistic investigation reveals that Russia's FSB security service plans to monitor all online and telephonic communication for all athletes and spectators during the 2014 Winter Olympics. One expert says it will be like "Prism on steroids."
A secondary school in Hangzhou is one of several throughout China that have implemented rules designed to keep teens' focus on the books and off each other. They have been met with outrage from social media users.
Inspired by the success of McDonald's and KFC -- which have outlets throughout southern and eastern Africa -- other American chains are exploring the sub-Saharan market.