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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Murdoch
A potentially awesome shift in the UK’s power structure is taking place if the role and influence of Murdoch’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOurKingdom forum: The fall of Murdoch - What next?
An ongoing forum in which OurKingdom authors consider why the fall of Rupert Murdoch has taken place, what it tells...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnger at Murdoch must be built on swiftly
Anger at News International needs to be used, fast, and with firm goals in mind: to re-establish proper boundaries...
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Published in: HomeCybersecurity: politics, interests, choices
The threat of cyber-attack is driving states and corporations to devote ever-greater resources to meet the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPoliticians aren't scared of Murdoch; they're scared of a world without him
People assume that politicians are simply terrified of Rupert Murdoch. But chiefly they have allowed and encouraged...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCameron on Murdoch: how his language reveals the crisis in British democracy
British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a press conference on the scandal of Murdoch's tabloid hacking and...
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Published in: HomeIs Assange the "world-spirit embodied"? A Hegel scholar reports from the Žižek/Assange Troxy gig
WikiLeaks combats the hidden but constant brutality of institutionalized violence, not just by the news content it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReality Management: Hack-gate, Hari, Milibot and the Cyber War
The closure of the Murdoch-owned British tabloid News of the World amidst an escalating phone hacking scandal is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHack-gate: the latest cultural contradiction of British conservatism?
The Murdoch-owned British Sunday tabloid, 'News of the World', has sunk deeper into an ongoing hacking scandal....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Murdochs are not fit and proper people
It's a "truly dreadful situation" declares the UK's Prime Minister on learning of the latest revelation of the...
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Published in: openEconomyWhat's the mampus all about? The merging of the shopping-mall & the campus in urban and social web design
Plans for a mall on my doorstep reminds me of the malls that Facebook and Google are building on our screens. Email...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe movement that needs no name
A global movement is taking shape. The failure of neoliberalism, the development of new technologies, a burgeoning...
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Published in: HomeWill the spirit of spring come to cyberspace?
Anonymous and LulzSec represent a real change in the politics of cyberspace. The networked power at the hands of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKProposals for a 'voluntary' web-blocking scheme leaked
Proposals for a ‘voluntary’ web-blocking scheme, put forward by a group of rightsholders, have allegedly been leaked...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon't Blame the Papers: the declining political influence of the printed press
The influence of Britain's printed press on the political sphere is diminishing. Circulation figures are shrinking,...
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Published in: HomeThe foreign correspondent: James Cameron, 1911-85
A voice of wry observation and quiet authority that made humane sense of distant events to a domestic public helped...
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Published in: HomeDigital young citizens: unlocking the privacy versus security debate
In the tussle between privacy and security concerns, there is only one agreed bottom line – that children must be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Future of Investigative Journalism: reasons to be cheerful
The general consensus is that investigative journalism is in decline. Yet the future looks hopeful, with the rise of...
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Published in: HomeDigital democracy, Plato, and web 2.0
Far from being the natural and easy remedy to the evil of bureaucratic delegation, digital democracy risks becoming...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivacy, super-injunctions and Twitter: what should we do?
The war between the courts, the media, parliament and twitter users over the role of the super-injunction reveals...