I’m no fan of the Olympics. Relay races, Javelin, the High Jump and Skeet shooting are no fun to watch and guzzle beer to, unless of course you are playing them yourself on the 2600. But this years Olympic games in Beijing are creating an interesting political environment in one of the most repressive regimes […]
One serious cause of confusion regarding the internet and democracy is the conflation between liberal democratic freedom and market freedom. One area that has been revolutionized by the growth of the internet has been the recording industry. The industry is itself still reeling from the gross errors in judgment and misguided, short sighted business practices […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whether it is a protest organized through social networks and SMS or web videos of presidential candidates, the tremendous impact of the social web on politics is hard to ignore. Pulsepolitics is a social media and politics journal that covers and analyzes instances where social media is changing the way politics work.
Our Team:
Andres Barreto
Is an […]