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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow ideological checking is empowering citizensTechnology has fostered – theoretically – better informed participatory processes. Ideological checking apps, which...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAre the days of user privacy over?Instant messaging has become the main digital tool for social and political activism. As its use expands, so do...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDemocracy gone digitalTo the extent that they overcome the traditional tyranny of space and time, digital platforms are tools for...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist bots vs right-wing trolls: Brazil’s gender justice movements cross new frontiersAbortion has long been criminalised in Brazil. It is an issue that many have all but given up on – except for...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe evolution of democratic participationRethinking representation involves expanding the deliberative community and redefining not only who decides on...
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Published in: 50.50How women in the Balkans are using social media to fight sexismWomen are primary targets of bias and online harassment in the Balkans. Now, a growing number are using the internet...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary threatens the European Union – a photo essay from Budapest"I joined a massive demonstration against the Orbán supremacy a week after the election, on Saturday afternoon 14...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cam-Book gate scandal will not restore our privacy, will it?For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe truth about Corbyn supporters’ Facebook groups2,000 abusive messages are too thousand too many. Is there any more to be said? It seems there might be.
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Published in: HomeManifesto on algorithmic humanitarianismThe nature of machine learning operations mean they will actually deepen some humanitarian problematics and...
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Published in: HomeSnowden to Cambridge Analytica – making the case for the social value of privacyConstitutionally inculcated rights and morality are slowly being undone “by the use of automated processes to assess...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propagandaYou can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
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Published in: 50.50Thanks to social media, do teenage girls like Ahed Tamimi now have the power to influence wars?Social media has enabled girls and young women to influence contemporary conflicts in new ways, according to 'War in...
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Published in: openIndiaRemotely-controlled weapons hit democracy: killing from a distanceIn the new information order, manipulated voters have come to outnumber threatened voters and bribed voters. The...
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Published in: digitaLiberties‘Cambridge Analytica’: surveillance is the DNA of the Platform EconomyThe current social mobilization against Facebook resembles the actions of activists who, in opposition to neoliberal...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cambridge Analytica scandal is a drop of water trickling down the visible top of an iceberg. Focus on decentralizing powerWe need open and robust debates. We cannot afford anything less than this. Too much is at stake. Part Three.
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Published in: HomeHow should we think about Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Russia and shady billionairesAn authoritarian surveillance state is being built in the US, while a massive land grab for power, by billionaires...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow can we better regulate elections in the digital age?Our politicians need to empower our electoral and information regulators to tackle the challenges ahead. Sam Jeffers...
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Published in: HomeAnother Jew suspended for antisemitism – why is the UK Labour Party making such an unedifying spectacle of itself?What, for example, has happened to the “fair and transparent " disciplinary procedures recommended by Shadow...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesThree bits of advice for blockchain advocates who think they understand aidDespite claims to the contrary, new technologies like blockchain are unlikely to disrupt the aid industry quickly....
