Monthly Archives: November 2010

This was my favorite of today’s readings by far, and one of my favorite of the quarter. Not only do Benkler and Shaw lay out a persuasive case for what they term “high resolution research” in internet studies, they also … Continue reading →

A theme in recent readings has been that deliberative discussion and other forms of political participation have been on the decline, particularly since the 1980s [1],[2]. I can’t help but think about this from an economics perspective. It might be … Continue reading →

I became interested in learning more about the public sphere after reading Jurgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and attempting to make sense of it through the eyes of Information Science.  I found Communicative Action to be useful in IS … Continue reading →

After reading Political Engagement Online written by Jennifer Brundidge and Ronald E. Rice I felt like it was a story I had read before. Then it hit me! It was a strain of the digital divide being manifested in the … Continue reading →

I’m going to argue that while our new networked world posses new problems and risks, in some ways they aren’t that much different than what humans have faced before. But first, I’m going to tell you about Cindy. I was … Continue reading →

One of the notable people to do this is Yochai Benkler, who spoke of the rise of a “networked” public sphere. He speaks about this and other relevant topics in his book “The Wealth of Networks.” You can download the full title by clicking here http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_of_the_book. Continue reading →

The three-model framework outlined by Freelon (2010) is intended to facilitate comparative evaluation of political discussion fora. He does not claim it as a general method for analyzing communication on and through social media platforms more generally. Similarly, danah boyd’s … Continue reading →

In Victor Mayer-Schonberger’s book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, the bulk of the discussion revolves around a pair of very compelling ideas: 1) that while throughout most human history remembering has been easy and forgetting has … Continue reading →

Chapter 1 of “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” proved to be very insightful. It illustrated both the benefits and disadvantages of digital memory as they pertain to privacy and personal security. In this chapter the began … Continue reading →

After reading the excerpt from Viktor’s Mayer-Schönberger’s “Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age”, I wondered if I ought to delete my last post, Hacktivism, which isn’t terribly racy or radical, but ponders on how companies in … Continue reading →