Last week my vague feelings of unease about social networking were fanned by a
fascinating study by the Mental Health Foundation, which blamed high levels
of loneliness among young people on their use of virtual, rather than real,
communication. Dubbed the “Eleanor Rigby generation”, those aged 18-34 (84%
of whom use the internet regularly) are the most likely to be lonely,
according to the report. And 31% admitted that they spent too much time
online rather than face to face.
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SlutWalk, Take Back The Night and Evolution's Future Sluts | ACCELER8OR - 0 views
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SlutWalk is a huge reclamation and restatement about boundaries and women's bodies. Sex workers are broadcasting the message that just because the nature of the work is sex does not mean that their bodies are automatically available for anyone's public debate, or worse. At the same time, all of the women in SlutWalks represent the idea that women can dress provocatively - and men still need to understand where the boundaries are.
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - Andy Greenberg - The Firewal... - 0 views
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Massachusetts company AS&E has sold more than 500 van-based scanners that can see through clothing and walls.
Lawrence Lessig: Neo-Progressives - 0 views
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It seems that just about every hundred years or so, the body politic we call America swells with fever as it fights off a democracy-destroying disease. That disease is "Special Interest Government".
Bernie Sanders Puts Barack Obama to Shame | Rolling Stone Politics - 0 views
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Not long ago I was sitting at home writing something for publication - I won't say what, except that it was a passage about a certain politician on the Hill. Out of habit I launched into a description that was full of nasty and personal language, and I was about to press on to the next part of the piece when suddenly I hit a mental speed bump. A voice in my head whispered - this really happened - "If you write that shit and Bernie Sanders sees it, he's going to be disappointed in you." So I went back and removed the gratuitous body blows from the article.
Facebook's friendship trap | Eleanor Mills - Times Online - 0 views
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The psychologist Dr Aric Sigman says that social networking sites undermine social skills and the ability to read body language.
Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views
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It invites individuals to foist and endorse (or not) ideas with no pressure to consider the full public consequences of them, including whether they can be sustained across ideological or partisan lines, or how practical they are, or how insulting of public officers. There is the published intention to attract a full range of public perspectives, but instead it tends to attract enclaves of people with committed strategies (eg. embarrass public officials) or perspectives (eg. technology is the answer). While national initiatives attract noise, in more local applications of such ideation, participation is often too thin to be meaningful. This all comes down the question of representativeness. If a governing body is going to legitimately use these ideas, and be compelled to do so, then there has to be good evidence that the contributors do actually form a descriptive representation of the public being governed. I think if you have a technical problem that requires particular expertise, then such ideation processes can find the needle in the haystack. Those of us who subscribe to technical forums know how well that works. I think some people feel that public policy ideation works the same way, but it doesn't because in a contested political environment, what "should be done" is claimed on normative rather than technical grounds. Another metaphor for the ranking in ideation is consumer selection, which many in political science would model as rational choice, privileging private over public interests. Should that be the motor for the selection of public policy? I write all this knowing full well that I risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I just think we can do better. Some ideation processes should invite people randomly, to ensure full demographic spread on relevant dimensions (eg. age, education, political leaning). Let's have multi-stage processes, where contributors do more than just introduce and rank ideas--to their credit, thi
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I fear that ultimately crowd-sourcing is damaging the enterprise of dialogue and deliberation (D&D).
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Great News for Open Governmen... - 0 views
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By the Autumn an online e-”domesday” book giving “an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies
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A new “institute” for web science headed by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt and with an initial £30m in funding
Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? - 0 views
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First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband
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Second to personalise –
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Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,
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Home - IMMI - 0 views
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Home From IMMI Jump to: navigation, search The International Modern Media Institute is working towards rethinking media regulation for the digital age.
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The Icelandic Parliament unanimously agreed to task the government with implementing the protections we proposed, and this work is now in progress.
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International modern media institute - an adivsor to the Island parliament to harness public creativity in co-drafting a collaborative constiution
Open Data Challenge - 0 views
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European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year
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We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
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