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The Public Sphere of Occupy Wall Street
I keep returning to the public sphere as Habermas originally described it as I think about progressive political movements of today: Occupy Wall Street and its global dimensions, Anonymous and its more...
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The Meaning of Cyberspace
I’ve just returned from a conference about Internet unlike any other I’ve been to before. The London Conference on Cyberspace, organised by William Hague and the Foreign Office, was a meeting that...
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Rise of the LOLcats
Click here to view the embedded video. “The Internet is made of cats,” goes the song. It reminds me in a funny way of one of those strange metaphors that analytic philosophers are fond of. The mind...
View ArticleProtest Infatuation and the 4th Wave of Democratization (3)
The Future of Youth Activism The majority of people in the world are under the age of 30, and more than a quarter of the world’s population is under 15. As they enter adulthood they will take for...
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We, the Web Kids
There is probably no other word that would be as overused in the media discourse as ‘generation’. I once tried to count the ‘generations’ that have been proclaimed in the past ten years, since the...
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Time to Update Our Politics of the Internet
The meteoric rise in popularity of the Pirate Party in Germany, the place of Facebook and Twitter in the recent upheavals in the Arab world, the potential for e-government, serious games for economic...
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A New Unit of Measurement – the Kardashian
In my class today, celebrated science journalist Alister Doyle shared an insight that crystalized for me a line of thinking I’ve been exploring about media attention, celebrity and charity. Doyle...
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Why Google Must Be Neutral
As the gateway to the Internet for the vast majority of users, Google has unparalleled influence over which content and services people discover, read, and use. Before Google’s need for growth...
View ArticleEthiopia: Enemy of the Internet?
In recent weeks, there’s been consternation in media around the world over an apparent ban on the use of VoIP services, such as Skype, that had allegedly been approved in Ethiopia. Reporters Without...
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The Cyber Cold War
The United States is not giving up control of the Internet. Or more precisely, the management of some of the net’s core functions, such as the management of the root file, coordinated within ‘Made in...
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