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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe bookbinder and the exorcist: the future of digitalisation in education (and everything else besides)
In education, as elsewhere, we should not oscillate between anachronistic technophobia and the blind faith which...
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Published in: HomeThe road from web 1.984
We are realising that the 'free' services we use online carry huge hidden costs. A totally administered society is...
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Published in: HomeOut of the press box and onto the field
I am a player in NewCo. I have to publicly abandon any position as an observer or independent analyst of Pierre...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBuzzfeed, The Mirror and the potential for new media
New media like Buzzfeed has the potential to reinvigorate news consumption just as the Mirror did in the 20th...
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Published in: HomeOstrom and the Commons
Elinor Ostrom's studies of commons-based social organization have important lessons for those looking to develop new...
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Published in: TransformationDon't feed the trolls? Cultivating civility online
A general truism about dealing with online trolls says never to give them the attention they crave. But the Internet...
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Published in: HomeHow capitalism is turning the internet against democracy, and how to turn it back
As capitalist corporations have come to dominate the internet, is it possible to fulfil the genuine democratic...
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Published in: HomeSubterranean Politics in Europe: an introduction
In a study of Europe’s “subterranean politics,” Mary Kaldor’s team at the London School of Economics and Political...
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Published in: HomeThinking about politics and the internet: time to update our perspective
We need a politics of the internet focused as much on creativity and imagination as on structure, space and intersection