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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe need a strong privacy theory: a response to Stephen TaylorMichael 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...
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Published in: HomeA secret grand jury against Assange is not "change we can believe in"
Wikileaks and the treatment of Bradley Manning have again revealed the gulf between Obama's idealistic rhetoric and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom online to offline: lessons from Netroots UK
An in-depth break-down of several events at the conference for online activists, Netroots UK. Includes commentary on...
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Published in: HomeA press fit for the purpose?
Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the...
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Published in: HomeDenis Dutton and Arts and Letters Daily: the authority of the aggregator and the shift in power from information to meaning
Denis Dutton, founder and editor of Arts and Letters Daily, has died. His daily selection of reading material was a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Murdoch debate: What next?The EU is expected to clear NewsCorp's bid to acquire all of BSkyB this week. David Elstein gives his account of an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAu revoir, Iain Dale
Britain's leading Conservative blogger has called it a day and moved on to be a publisher and broadcaster, leaving...
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Published in: HomeIf you rule by code you will fall by code: the philosophy of Wikileaks
Diplomatic protocols and Internet protocols share rules but differ in their purpose. When the hacker ethic is...
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Published in: HomeBerlusconi’s politics of an eternal present
Berlusconi dictates an idea of the eternal present based upon a model of eternal youth and embodied in the...
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Published in: HomeWikiLeaks and democracy
The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a...
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Published in: HomeIf Assange is a spy, then so am I
The job and duty of journalists is to expose lies and their consequences. Julian Assange has shown that one does not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs it time for Murdoch's empire to be reined in?: A fascinating debate on News Corp's bid to take over BSkyBIs this the moment to halt the expansion of Richard Murdoch's media empire in the UK? An OurKingdom post, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTake Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves
We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what...
