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Published in: openDemocracyUKBloggers are best at covering local cuts across the UK: so we're being bannedBloggers are essential for covering the council cuts: we know the local scene, are immune to pressure from...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future MattersDiane Coyle’s The Economics of Enough is an eerily calm introduction to the severity of our economic situation....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA social democracy of the people? A review of Fight Back!A review of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest, published by OurKingdom on February 15 and free to...
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Published in: openEconomyNewsCorp BSkyB settlement says more about failures at Ofcom and BBC dominance than problems with Murdoch
The asymmetry of the UK's regulatory treatment of NewsCorp and the BBC needs examination. This paper was prepared...
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Published in: openEconomyUK regulator's Sky News deal will weaken media plurality
Sky News is a respected, trusted and high quality news provider in a UK television market dominated by the BBC. The...
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Published in: HomeWilson, Trotsky, Assange: lessons from the history of diplomatic transparency
Bentham and Kant were clear that diplomatic secrecy was bad. So were Wilson and Trotsky. And while Wikileaks may not...
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Published in: HomeLiterature's game changers: how the console moulds us and our fiction
The greatest novel has probably been written, while the greatest computer game is still almost certainly to come....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCamera in hand, idea in head: Notes from a video blogger
The first video blogger for the New Statesman reveals his project to create a full-length documentary of the...
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Published in: HomeWikiHunt and the (in)visible handshake
The second wave of anti-WikiLeaks measures has recruited the private sector in a manner that calls for an urgent...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn a world where education is a commodity, why not subcontract your PhD?
In trading off plagiarism, essay-writing companies undermine basic goods in education, beginning with critical,...
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Published in: HomeDid the Internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt?
An audio interview in which Nabila Ramdani describes the role of the social networks in the Tunisian and Egyptian...
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Published in: Home"What has Wikileaks ever taught us?" ... Read on ...
How often have we been told in world-weary tones that Wikileaks has revealed nothing new - especially by those who...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe need a strong privacy theory: a response to Stephen Taylor
Michael Birnhack responds to Stephen Taylor's notes towards a theory of privacy. He agrees that we desperately need...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHave the UK's ID cards really played their last hand?
The ID card scheme has officially ended. Celebrations are in order, but we mustn't get complacent. A brief glance at...
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Published in: HomeFacebook: virtual impact on reality in the Middle East
Beyond the analysis of how Facebook, Twitter and other social media are rapidly bringing about political change in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivacy is power, as it allows us to be hypocrites
There is no widely accepted theory of what privacy is and what role it plays in our society. It can be usefully...
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Published in: oDRThe people’s web: Russia’s citizen bloggersAfter a decade in the wilderness, Russian civil society is finding a powerful voice online. Alexey Sidorenko and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKScotland's secret files: A two-part expose of the Scottish database state
In this pair of articles, Kenneth Roy of the Scottish Review exposes the extent of the Scottish database state: the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWake up NetrootsUK! Demand access to the web as a human right
As the web offers the possibility of direct, deliberative democracy, the UK activists involved in internet...
