Some years back, I gave a talk at O’Reilly’s ETech conference that urged the audience to spend less time thinking up clever ways dissidents could… Read More »Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression
Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage… Read More »Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion
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I try to keep an eye on stories about PR and lobbying firms that work on behalf of dictatorial governments, like our oil-rich friends in… Read More »The lobbyist and the quilt
Robert Neuwirth is bringing new insights to familiar (for him, unfamiliar for most of us) territory in his book, “Stealth of Nations“. His previous work,… Read More »Book review: Improvisational economies and a globalized building
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