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Published in: HomeMurdoch and Berlusconi: the fall of two media empires and the network multitudesThe simultaneous fall of the Murdoch and Berlusconi media empires – symbolic of an epoch – is not a coincidence but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnatomy of a Networked Riot: rapid violence, rapid response
Social networking has come under fire since England's week of riots and looting. But the same tools that facilitated...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Localism Bill: towards democracy or small-state Conservatism?
The Localism Bill's stated aim is to shift power from Westminster into the hands of local people. But will it...
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Published in: HomeThe net of hatred: after Utøya
The public debate in Norway following the massacre of 22 July 2011 is taking shape. A key focus is the obsessional...
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Published in: HomePR.ocess or PR.opaganda: a battle for the truth
The multi-billion dollar industry of Public Relations (PR) is divided between those who use it for genuine...
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Published in: HomeNetworked activism meets the dominant culture of technocratic managerialism in Westminster
The first full-time executive director of the Open Rights Group (and one-time openDemocracy technology director)...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe far right are the masters of network politics, not the 'internationalist' left
While the left presume they are the internationalists, it is the far right who have mastered network politics, by...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnarchists are under attack because their ideas are gaining ground
The London Metropolitan Police have withdrawn an appeal to the public to 'report anarchists'. This incident is part...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKettled Youth: the emergence of a new politics in Britain
A new polemic pamphlet reflects on the emergence of a new politics in Britain, through the lens of the police tactic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn a Lobster's Eye: truth, power and printThe role of the writer in politics is to speak truth to power. But the relationship of politicians to the truth has...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews International: Britain's MafiaMurdoch's hold over Britain over the last three decades has been nothing short of mafia-like. Much can be learned...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBarnett is wrong; the public had little to do with Murdoch's fallWas it the public's outrage that brought down the News of the World? And Ed Miliband's courage that has led to a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs the hacking scandal the British establishment's 'Napster Moment'?
There are two new models of crisis: the 'Wikileaks Moment' and the 'Napster Moment'. They involve the technological...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Brief History of Britain’s Power Elites: through Murdoch and beyond?War with Hitler’s Germany spelled the end for Britain’s old power elite. A new political class emerged, including...
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Published in: HomeA passion for change - LulzSec interview
A rare and candid interview conducted with Topiary, founding member of LulzSec and self-described ‘captain of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJournalists should be hackers - but target the open web, not private phonesThe News of the World scandal has changed our perception of the term 'hacker'. But the technique of hacking is...
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Published in: HomeThe green shoots of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is frequently portrayed as a series of uprisings against oppressive regimes. A more...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRupert, Rebekah and media 'effix'Ethical journalism requires that the ends justify the means. The lesson of the phone hacking scandal, argues Richard...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHackgate, power elites and the limits of the “corruption” critiqueThe real significance of the "hackgate" scandal in the UK is in revealing an underlying truth about the governing...
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Published in: HomeA democracy of journalists
The stramash over abuse of power and standards at Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp should reinvigorate the idea of...
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