Author Archives: Beth Patin

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 →

In Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet authors Deibert and Rohozinski posit global civic society networks, consisting of civic networks, resistance networks, and dark nets, as some of the earliest adopters … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed all three of this weeks readings; they have been my favorite of the course so far.  Out of the three, Beth Noveck’s chapters in Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More … Continue reading →

In class last Thursday, even though the goal of class was to discuss the conceptions of privacy, I noticed most of us went immediately to the idea of balancing privacy.  The discussion became about when we are willing to give … Continue reading →

For the last couple of days, I have attempted to balance two spheres (well more) in the air: readings on privacy and cleaning my house.  Cleaning my house is important; it keeps me organized, and more importantly, keeps the husband … Continue reading →

Here is a link to an article that I mentioned in class.  One of the tweeters was only getting information from twitter and the major news networks had not picked up the stories yet.  http://www.france24.com/en/20100227-twitter-disaster-info-chile-earthquake-america-south-tsunami-internet

In Mediated Politics, Bennett and Entman seek to “explore how communication media affect exchanges of information through which people decide how to think and act in politics” (pg. 2). They operationalize politics as the authoritative allocation of values in society … Continue reading →