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Hi Valerie, I fully agree with your reply. However, there are some issues I will like to raise. "It seems a Christian cannot do anything in the secular realm without drawing criticisms or at th...

SingaNews Christian Fundamentalism Family Objectivity

started by Weiye Loh on 15 Sep 09 3 follow-ups, last by Weiye Loh on 21 Sep 09

Reference: Krishnan, S. (2009, June 21). Measuring the effectiveness of online activism. The Hindu. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary...

online activism freedom control

started by joanne ye on 24 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

According to the readings, one reason why people do not consider illegal downloads as theft is that it does not deprive others of that item. When I download an mp3 file from, the file will not disa...

started by Magdaleine on 26 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by Chen Guo Lim on 26 Aug 09

I think what you raised up is a good point. On one hand, there should be censorship to extreme activism. I think extreme forms could be like using the online platform to translate into real world...

online activism new media

started by YongTeck Lee on 30 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Jody Poh on 30 Sep 09

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...

started by Jiamin Lin on 16 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

By Chua Hian Hou from Straits Times BLOGGERS and users of other new media may soon have to say so upfront if they receive gifts or money for their write-ups. The Media Development Authority (MDA)...

Regulations Blogs Subjectivity Ethics Transparency

started by Weiye Loh on 12 Oct 09 no follow-up yet

democracy social media

started by Jude John on 28 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

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...

avatars

started by Elaine Ong on 16 Sep 09 7 follow-ups, last by Weiye Loh on 18 Sep 09

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/state-2-0-a-new-front-end A paragraph in the article sums up what the article is about quite well: "Indeed, new problematics are emerging around online democr...

digital democracy

started by YongTeck Lee on 15 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

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...

democracy speech freedom sedition

started by Ang Yao Zong on 15 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

Perhaps, censorship does make stereotypes more obvious. What about in the event that censorships maybe employed by governmental regulations, which is almost always the case, if you exclude self ce...

censorship sterotypes

started by Valerie Oon on 01 Sep 09 4 follow-ups, last by Chen Guo Lim on 02 Sep 09

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/01/25/google-china060125.html Google agreed to Beijing's censorship policies limiting search results in order to get broader access to the large market. Google s...

Online Censorship

started by Paul Melissa on 31 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/30/china.green.dam/index.html Summary: China has passed a mandate requiring all personal computers sold in the country to be accompanied by a contro...

China pornography filter

started by Low Yunying on 02 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

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...

started by qiyi liao on 02 Sep 09 no follow-up yet

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...

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 4 follow-ups, last by Jude John on 25 Aug 09

http://peteashton.com/2006/10/infringing_the_bankster/ I came across this story some time back when Banksy's works were more popular. Banksy is the handle used by an anonymous graffiti artist in E...

Banksy Graffiti Vandalism Copyright Art England

started by Jianwei Tan on 25 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4686584/Pirate-Bay-victory-after-illegal-file-sharing-charges-dropped.html Summary: The Pirate Bay, the biggest file-sharing internet site which was accu...

started by Elaine Ong on 25 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by Inosha Wickrama on 26 Aug 09

Article : Go slow with tech law Published : 23 Aug 2009 Source: Straits Times Background : When Singapore signed a free trade agreement with the USA in 2003, intellectual property rights was a ...

sim lim square

started by juliet huang on 26 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

Ethics Media Medicine

started by Weiye Loh on 06 Oct 09 no follow-up yet

Nanotechnology ethics media

started by Low Yunying on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet