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// 03.31.2008 at 3:27 pm // 2 Comments »

Spying 2.0 - Wikis and Google Aid CIA Espionage Efforts

Yesterday I wrote that we need to critically evaluate the ability of the internet to enhance democracy. I suggested that for three reasons we need reconsider the internet as a uniformly democratic technology:
1. Ease of surveillance
2. The net’s culturally homogenizing effects
3. The net’s military origins.
Today the San Fransisco Chronicle has published an article highlighting […]

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// 03.30.2008 at 3:21 pm // Have your say »

Internet as tool for democracy, really?

The year is 2008. The cold war has been won, the world has been globalized, the internet has made people everywhere interconnected. As the internet grows it has become clear that it is not just a powerful tool for transmitting information, it is also a powerful tool for social organization. Sites like YouTube begin […]

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