New Media and the Creative Industries In the UK
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 3 Comments »The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report Opening paragraph of summary The pace of change is so rapid that solutions to some of the problems that we sought to address have already begun to emerge. However, at the ...
Wiki Government: Nobody is as clever as everybody
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »The core of the argument by Beth Noveck in Wiki-Government. How open-source technology can make government decision-making more expert and more democratic. new technology may be changing the relationship between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to ...
Corporate Ownership of Mass Media Degrades News
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Society | 1 Comment »The U.S. mass media ?is controlled by a handful of very large companies? such as General Electric, Disney, Westinghouse, CBS and Fox that ?are under very strong pressure to make a lot of money? and do so ...
The ?26 billion spent on bailing Northern Rock out is double the entire primary school budget.
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Economics, Education, Government & Politics, News, Society | No Comments »So even the most starry-eyed socialist could not have imagined that Gordon Brown would be seriously contemplating the nationalisation of a high-street bank six months into his premiership. The opinion polls say that voters are losing faith in the ...
Participatory Media to better enable Civic Engagement
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Gaming, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Second Life, Social Networks, Society, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | No Comments »Howard Rheingold writes in Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction ...
Tools for open government
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Ethan Zuckerman writes I?m in Sebastapol, CA today and tomorrow, participating in a conversation hosted by Tim O?Reilly and Carl Malamud of public.resource.org . The topic is "Open Government" and the folks in the room are ...
Networked politics in Australia
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Russell Buckley who I finally had the pleasure to shake hands with recently mentions us in a post he made on Post-Representational Politics Russell references Senator Online, and he goes onto say Senator Online is ...
Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property:
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted in Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1 + Part 2 written by Michel Bauwens is illuminating. And you have to hand it to Robin, he articulates and illustrates ...
An inconvenient truth, roadblocking debate on climate change in English schools
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Economics, Engagement Marketing, Government & Politics, Philosophy, Society | No Comments »This newspaper clipping has been in my bag for a little while. And it deals with the banning of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth to be shown in schools. Do you know what I did, I shut my ...
Corruption of the body mind and soul: ITV and the BBC in the dock M’Lud
Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Mobile, Philosophy, Television, US Airways, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »I was watching
