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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe movement that needs no nameA 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 pressThe 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 debateIn 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 cheerfulThe 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...
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Published in: HomeWe have broken the silence: Fresh from Madrid, a member of the Communications team of the 15 May Movement
This interview with Beatriz Pérez took place in the early morning of Thursday 26 May in English with additions from...
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Published in: HomeSome kind of revolution
In Puerta del Sol, the camp’s peaceful and serious ethos seems to have won the demonstrators the respect of many...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUnions, it's time to join the information age
It’s time for unions to embrace the information age and develop an online, global, networked social movement unionism
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Communication Commons: resisting the recuperation of the internet by capitalIs the 'information revolution' truly revolutionary? The internet presents us with a choice. Either we permit the...
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Published in: HomeA war of rhetoric: the Israel-Palestine vortex
A fevered dispute in the media contest over Israel-Palestine is an object lesson in the deformities of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Spanish protests and the need for politics and conflict
The popular uprising of Spanish youth has been inspiring to observe, but its call for radical democracy should not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe 'Spanish revolution' and the Commons: a Tale of Two Tweets
While hundreds arrived at the Spanish Embassy in London to support the protesters in Spain, the Labour-run Progress...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEgypt, Bahrain, London, Spain - Tahrir Square as a meme
Certain tropes of struggle are spreading mimetically between movements against poverty, corruption and austerity...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPower and the Media in Britain - where do we go from here?The media are a power in their own right, and are connected to political, economic and social forms of power....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, educationOnline networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTwo arrests, a suspension, accusations of Islamophobia: Nottingham University must submit to a public enquiry
A professor was suspended earlier this month after publicly criticising the University of Nottingham's actions three...
