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Published in: HomeJanusz Palikot’s ‘Cannabis Stunt’ Overshadowed a More Complex Debate about Drug Policy Reform in PolandPalikot’s symbolic gesture played into the hands of a media that is eager to demonize the decriminalization...
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Published in: HomeJapan, the earthquake and the mediaThe worst disaster in Japan since the second world war hit the country's north-east coastal region on 11 March 2011....
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Published in: openEconomyJimmy Wales or Kim Dotcom - is anti-SOPA about fundamental principles or competing commercial interests?
In this podcast, Tony Curzon Price talks to Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures, the venture capital...
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Published in: HomeIntellectuals against the public sphere: how to do debate better than Evgeny Morozov's tear-down
Evgeny Morozov, an engaging thinker whom we have enjoyed publishing on openDemocracy, produced an intemperate review...
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Published in: 50.50Unruly politics: atomised movements, activist individuals and clientilism
Do new social media create new forms of citizen action? Jenny Morgan reports on a knowledge exchange conference in the Hague
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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: 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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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: HomeLiberation technology: dreams, politics, history
The doctrinal commitment to new cyber and social technologies as a means of solving political problems needs to...
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Published in: HomeThe freedom cloud
The tools that help Arab democracy protesters also extend the reach of three United States corporations. The power...
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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: HomeRed lenses on a rainbow of revolutionsGiven continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...
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Published in: Home20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of FacebookThe eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless...
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Published in: HomeA free media: Tasneem Khalil’s project
The work of a Bangladeshi journalist offers a different perspective on some of the professional and ethical dilemmas...
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Published in: HomeAustria after Hans Dichand
The death of a powerful media patriarch is also the end of an era in Austrian politics. After Hans Dichand, the...
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Published in: HomeGoogle vs China: capitalist model, virtual wall
The breach between a corporate behemoth of the new-media age and an emerging state superpower defines the struggle...
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Published in: HomeA Manchester of the mind
The Guardian newspaper has its intellectual and moral roots in the northern English city of Manchester. The distance...
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Published in: oDRKremlin hand hovers over Russia's internet
So far the Russian government has resisted the temptation of controlling the Russian internet, but this may be about...
