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This article comments on the government use of the internet to comment and collabrate with the public. According to the author, efficient use of tools to interact with the public will create a "c...
hi weiye, i agree with you that this brings in the topic of representation. maybe you should try taking media and representation by Dr. Ingrid to discuss more on this. Going back to your questio...
I think that companies concerned over this issue due to the loss of potential income constitutes egoism. They mainly want to defend their interests without considering the beneficial impact of the ...
shttp://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_334426.html Summary: The article centres on the Senior Minister of State (Information, Communications and the Arts) Lui Tuck ...
http://media.www.csucauldron.com/media/storage/paper516/news/2009/09/06/TheMeltingPot/Technological.Freedom-3759993.shtml Digital Rights Management (DRM) or should it be called "Digital Rights Mis...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5852898-7.html Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist is being convicted of sending a government's 'top secret' message that was sent to the newspaper agency he was workin...
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-23-bush_x.htm The US government defends their terrorist surveillance program that monitors international communications of suspected terrorist ...
Thanks for your comments. I may have appeared to be contradictory, but what I really meant was that ownership of IP should not be a motivating factor to innovate. I realise that in our capitalistic...
URL: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/09/16/lula-da-silva-supports-unrestricted-political-campaigning-in-internet The article talks about the use of the internet in political campaigns. Brazilian Pre...
http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2007/04/muar_rapper_on_.html http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/13039/84/ The two links above talk about Wee Meng Chee, a Malaysian rapper who is currently pursuing...
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN002553.pdf There is no general data protection or privacy law in Singapore. The government has been aggressive in using surveill...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7872425.stm The article effectively speaks of how CCTV cameras and DNA database are threats to privacy. Though many states have reasoned them for being...
We all know that Google revealed the blogger who called model Liskula Cohen a skank, and everyone in the web community was up in arms because it seems that Google has breached its duty to protect i...
Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian countries that censor the internet. -The Guardi...
"These women will have forever have to live with the social stigma of being a "porn star" and whatever negativity that is associated with that concept. " The patriarchal ideology is the underlying...
BALTIMORE, Aug. 12 -- The Maryland State Police issued the following news release: A man who had been making online plans to allegedly have sex with someone he thought was a 13-year old girl, had h...
Anger at UK file-sharing policy: ISP's have reacted angrily towards UK's government's stance on tougher laws for file-sharing offenders by cutting them off from the net completely. There is a big...
http://www.tnp.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,209251,00.html 1) Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided 13 shops in Lucky Plaza and arrested 27 men and one woman, aged...
Yes, commodification has led to liberation. After all, capitalism is all about creating new markets for more production and consumption. Beauty has all along been commodified since the oldest trade...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/us/politics/02cyber.html?_r=1 In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank acco...
