Technology and protest
Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.html This month, to protest against new internet monitoring plans, twitter users utilised hashtag #TellDaveEverything. The protest took the form of listing mundane events that they thought they should tell the prime minister about to make the point that the new laws would ‘snoop into everything’. Coverage from CBC Canada captured examples. There […]
Technology and development
Global Information Technology report 2012: http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology# Reports on the extent to which 142 economies use ICT and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. See the rankings and essays which discuss the impact on working life. There is also a separate data platform http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology/gitr-2012-data-platform
Internet enemies report 2012
Reporters without Borders has publishes the Internet Enemies 2012 Report http://march12.rsf.org/en/#ccenemies This provides rankings and information on nations that censor internet access. Other useful sites on this topic: The Ifex international Freedom of Expression Exchange http://www.ifex.org/ is a good starting point; it aims to rapidly disseminate news and information about freedom of expression violations around the […]
UK Education select committee uses Twitter
Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.com/#!/search/AskGove For more infromation see: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/news/ask-gove-news/
2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Countries at the Crossroads 2011
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702 Access the full text of this report from Freedom House. It analyses democratic governance in 35 nations it regards as being at a crossroads in the road to full democracy. These include a number of nations affected by the Arab spring. Topics covered include civil liberties, corruption and the rule of law. Other similar […]
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Internet and news media
How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/tablet A report from the Pew Research Centre for Excellence in Journalism. Focuses on the USA. The Pew site is also a good source of information on the impact of the internet on the media. They have a weekly New Media index. […]
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