Noam Chomsky's radical views on language found him global fame. 50 years on, the professor disusses death threats, the internet and why he thinks Obama was marketed like a brand of toothpaste.
Christian Fuchs: A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2.
Dunbar's number it basically says that the most amount of people that you can maintain stable social relationships with is 150
Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
Morten Hansen's fantastic book on Collaboration in which he states that the real value of collaboration and of networks doesn't come from strong relationships and networks but from weak one's.
Entscheidungen werden von mehr Leuten mitgetragen ... müssen dadurch aber nicht besser werden. Ich sehe die Gefahr des großen "Blufs" ... Zahlt es sich aus, die MAssen begeistern zu wollen (die anscheinend ja nicht von selbst kommen), ist eine kleine elitäre Gruppe hochgradig involvierter nicht besser?
Surowiecky sagt, dass kogintionsprobleme (wie viele Drops sind im dem Glas, wie schwer ist die Kuh?) sehr gut von der Masse gelöst werden, über beteiligung im Government meint er: "making policy in a democracy is not a cognition problem; it is a cooperation and coordination problem with fuzzier and less definitive answers"
und ist der Meinung Wisdow of the crowd wäre hier nicht direkt anwendbar.
d I want to go much further in harnessing the power of technology to refashion the structures and workings of government
s can open the door to a reinvention of the core policy-making processes and towards a renewal of politics itself
to replace the first generation of e-government with a much more interactive second generation form of digital engagement which we are calling Mygov
s open, personalised platform will allow us to deliver universal services that are also tailored to the needs of each individual
to move from top-down, monolithic websites broadcasting public service information in the hope that the people who need help will find it – to government on demand.
survey freely available to the public, without restrictions on re-use. Further details on the package and government’s response to the consultation will be published by the end of March.
in the autumn the Government will publish online an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies – a “domesday book” for the 21st century.