internet - openDemocracy (Page 64)

Who decides what we access on the Internet?: Web blocking and its dangers

Another March, another web blocking proposal. The Guardian reported last week that Ed Vaizey MP, one of the ministers in charge of the UK's internet policy, has been hosting discussions between Internet Service Providers and the music and film industries about a 'voluntary code' to facilitate the

By Peter Bradwell

/ 25 Mar 2011

Digital activism and the anti-cuts agenda

Outrage at the Coalition's austerity programme and the capacity for digital networked communications have given rise to a new activism. The common anti-cuts agenda is clear, but will new forms of communication, deliberation and organisation give rise to more radical objectives?

By Joss Hands

/ 24 Mar 2011

The Networked Society: OurKingdom joins the conversation

The world is only now waking up to the radically transformative potential of the network. Our ability to reflect and evaluate on such 'revolutionary' change is struggling to keep pace with the technology itself. The OurKingdom debate on the networked society aims to have a place at the forefront o

By Niki Seth-Smith and Aaron Bastani

/ 24 Mar 2011

Where does the west stand on global freedom of expression?

US talk of global freedom of expression and an open internet sit uneasily with their sharp clampdown on Wikileaks. Can the west be honest with itself?

By Andy Yee

/ 14 Mar 2011

Bloggers are best at covering local cuts across the UK: so we're being banned

Bloggers are essential for covering the council cuts: we know the local scene, are immune to pressure from politicians, and are always on the ground. Is that why councils are attempting to ban us from filming, recording or tweeting in controversial meetings?

By Kate Belgrave

/ 11 Mar 2011

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters

Diane Coyle’s The Economics of Enough is an eerily calm introduction to the severity of our economic situation. While the facts outlined appear to justify an overhaul of our entire political economy, the book leaves us with disappointingly timid proposals for change.

By William Davies

/ 9 Mar 2011

A social democracy of the people? A review of Fight Back!

A review of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest, published by OurKingdom on February 15 and free to download. Stuart White concludes that the Reader is

By Stuart White

/ 4 Mar 2011

NewsCorp BSkyB settlement says more about failures at Ofcom and BBC dominance than problems with Murdoch

The asymmetry of the UK's regulatory treatment of NewsCorp and the BBC needs examination. This paper was prepared for a media-law seminar at the LSE convened by Damian Tambini. A summary of the author's position can be read here.

By David Elstein

/ 4 Mar 2011

UK regulator's Sky News deal will weaken media plurality

Sky News is a respected, trusted and high quality news provider in a UK television market dominated by the BBC. The regulatory agreement by which NewsCorp can take full control of BSkyB as long as it effectively divests itself of Sky News jeopardises this valued news service. A detailed version of

By David Elstein

/ 4 Mar 2011

Wilson, Trotsky, Assange: lessons from the history of diplomatic transparency

Bentham and Kant were clear that diplomatic secrecy was bad. So were Wilson and Trotsky. And while Wikileaks may not be the ideal organisation to take diplomatic publicity to a new level, we should embrace its challenge.

By Daniele Archibugi and Marina Chiarugi

/ 28 Feb 2011

Literature's game changers: how the console moulds us and our fiction

The greatest novel has probably been written, while the greatest computer game is still almost certainly to come. Will the medium change us enough to turn itself into mainstream art, as the novel once did?

By James Warner

/ 28 Feb 2011

Camera in hand, idea in head: Notes from a video blogger

The first video blogger for the New Statesman reveals his project to create a full-length documentary of the anti-cuts movement. In a new world of cheap digi-cameras and easy upload, he highlights some of the best video platforms online, and offers his perspective on the changing nature of the doc

By Michael Chanan

/ 23 Feb 2011