media & the net: all articles

A clash over media is at the core of the region's bitter divides, pressing left and right into new shapes

An al-Qaida militant calls on Germany to leave Afghanistan. But why does he wear a suit and tie? 

Can the rules of new media be boiled down to 17 points? The "Internet Manifesto" tries to do so. Join in the Diigo annotation of the manifesto. Can openDemocracy sign up to it?

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I usually find it easiest to install the diigo toolbar on my browser to add notes to online texts. You can also get the same sort of functionality by installing the diigolet button, which is somewhat easier to use and install.If you have any trouble with any of this, add a question to the comments on this page and we'll try to sort it out. TCP)

Just as old media has learned to use the fluid networks of Web 2.0, so old politics can fuse incrementally with the State 2.0

How can public space be protected from violence? – a Peruvian horror story

China's netizen victory over internet control is a signal of an emerging political power

If open source can create complex software, can the same techniques apply to finance?

The UK's "no win, no fee" libel cases protect access to the law even as they might threaten global  free speech. A responsible balance needs to be struck

Technology may kill publishers but books will thrive, as will the power and threat of monopoly

Circulation, revenue, attention, authority, deference: a host of troubles force the diminishing of news

Will an online community more populous than most states become one of citizens, not customers?

How UK libel threatens global web free speech

The analogy between markets and Web2.0 should not blind us to the centralising tendencies inherent in the web's advertising business models

Anomie and alienation are pathologies of private liberty; social tyranny is a pathology of collective self-determination. Technology offers them all new and frightening scope

We needed both individual and collective notions of freedom to survive if technology is not to empower tyranny

The shrillness and point-scoring of much net-based discussion is closing the space for politics

TV and video have scrambled our eyes, brains, and reality itself. So who now to vote for?

Food, water, medicine and shelter save lives. But so does information

A draconian rights regime makes fans into pirates - and trouble for the computer-game industry

The Georgia-Russia war exposes some of the flaws in the idea of citizen journalism