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Is 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 brings to light but by disturbing the formal functioning of power itself: it has the power to circumvent the oblique ways in which information flows and thereby rewrite the very rules

By Petri Autio

/ 9 Jul 2011

Reality 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 just one aspect of a bigger crisis that is undermining the reality management system upon which the media, politicians and the financial sector rely

By K-punk Punk

/ 8 Jul 2011

Hack-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. Given that the right-wing tabloid press is a bastion of the British conservative establishment, how will the scandal affect the character of UK conservatism?

By William Davies

/ 7 Jul 2011

What'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 should be part of the strategy to reclaim our public spheres

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 5 Jul 2011

The movement that needs no name

A global movement is taking shape. The failure of neoliberalism, the development of new technologies, a burgeoning class of the over-educated and under-employed: all play a part in its birth. Yet the movement is only now beginning to recognise itself and its future role

By Aaron Bastani

/ 1 Jul 2011

Will 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 hackers may show itself to be the equal of people power on the streets

By Anonymous .

/ 25 Jun 2011

Proposals 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 from discussions with the UK minister for Communications, Culture and the Creative Industries

By Peter Bradwell

/ 22 Jun 2011

Don'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, reflecting the rise of new media. Finally, the myth of the all-powerful newspaper baron is cracking

By Ken Goldstein

/ 20 Jun 2011

Digital 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 protected. Could young people help resolve the debate?

By Michel Nienhuis

/ 13 Jun 2011

The 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 journalism bureaus, the active involvement of the campaign sector, and a new generation of networked, web-savvy journalists pushing the field forward

By Paul Lashmar

/ 13 Jun 2011

Digital democracy, Plato, and web 2.0

Far from being the natural and easy remedy to the evil of bureaucratic delegation, digital democracy risks becoming its inconvenient appendix - a deceitful form of participation, which can turn out to be the very contrary of productive dialogue.

By Giorgio Fontana

/ 9 Jun 2011

Privacy, 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 the unresolved tension between the UK's commitments to upholding privacy and freedom of speech. David Elstein argues that the only solution is new legislation

By David Elstein

/ 6 Jun 2011