Media & communications - openDemocracy (Page 142)

Biopolitics, territories and signs of crisis in multinational network companies

There is still a solid social cushion in France if we compare it to other European countries. But the pressure for work-hour productivity – one of the highest in the world – oppresses generations of digital cognitive workers.

By Giorgio Griziotti

/ 10 May 2012

Motorman: Britain's other massive press scandal

As well as the Murdoch affair another huge scandal of illegal press intrusion in the UK has been exposed but not publicised. Will it take off? Or will the many vested interests kill it off? An exclusive, clear description.

By Brian Cathcart

/ 10 May 2012

The Murdochs and the Tories: madly intimate but was it a conspiracy, a response to Anthony Barnett

The way the Cameron-Osborne government got into bed with the Murdochs, father and son, was crazy, but was there a deal? Probably not, says David Elstein, and Anthony Barnett replies.

By David Elstein

/ 9 May 2012

Throwing the three ‘Rs’ away: Rupert Murdoch, the Referendum and Rangers FC

The rise of the SNP has revealed certain defects as to the way power is handled in Scottish politics. Alex Salmond’s links with Murdoch, the ongoing question of referendum, and the financial crisis at Rangers FC are indicative of these problems - highlighting the vital areas where Scottish public

By Gerry Hassan

/ 8 May 2012

The cost of knowledge: open sourcing and the ‘academic spring’

Academic publishing in the UK has conventionally been channelled through by a small number of companies who maintain high fees for journal subscriptions. But as open source software continues to provide high quality free alternatives for autodidacts and beyond, the lifespan of this model is increa

By James Appleton

/ 7 May 2012

Journalist or Citizen?

A short extract from the VociGlobali panel discussion at the Perugia journalism conference. Framed as an answer to James Curran's question: "Why has the Internet changed so little", the author proposes that the culprit was an optimistic confusion and causal reversal between Citizen and Journalist

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 6 May 2012

Cameron's mistake, Murdoch and the 'return of history'

David Cameron’s rise to power was facilitated by his canny appropriation of a Blairite ‘post-historical’ ideology. But as the continuing financial crisis reveals the hollowness of Fukuyama’s thesis, how will Britain’s prime minister adapt to the emphatic ‘return’ of history?

By Matthew Richmond

/ 4 May 2012

Global Civil Society and the rise of the civil economy

The last thirty years has seen the re-emergence of a civil economic challenge, side by side with the advance of globalisation, as a distinct strand in the development of global civil society. Don’t underestimate its longterm significance in the glacial shifts now taking place in the world economy.

By Robin Murray .

/ 3 May 2012

Thinking about politics and the internet: time to update our perspective

We need a politics of the internet focused as much on creativity and imagination as on structure, space and intersection

By Sabine Selchow

/ 2 May 2012

Leveson's job of tackling UK press abuse is far from over

Now that Rupert Murdoch has faced Lord Justice Leveson, it's easy to think it's all over. But the purpose was never to nail the mogul's media empire. This is a UK state inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press in its totality, and that work is far from done.

By Brian Cathcart

/ 30 Apr 2012

Dial M for Murdoch: the book to sink an empire?

Rupert Murdoch has returned for his second day before the UK state inquiry into the British press. While we tune into his defence, a sharp counter-point is the book Dial M for Murdoch with its uncompromising, up-to-date account of the global media empire's poisonous inner workings.

By Bruce Page

/ 26 Apr 2012

NewsCorp did not influence openDemocracy

The implication that David Elstein wrote two articles in openDemocracy at the encouragement of James Murdoch's lobbyist is groundless.

By David Elstein

/ 25 Apr 2012