Category: internet
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Net Dialogue: Clearing House on Internet Governance
One of the most useful sites that you will find concerning the complex subject of Internet governance is a ‘clearing house’ site jointly produced by Harvard and Stanford’s Law Schools. They demarcate the various communities of interest and the contested attributes of Internet governance and even suggest why we need Internet governance in the first…
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Vannavar Bush ‘As we may think’ (1945)
In this famous article by Dr Vannavar Bush, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, he outlines his vision for the 'Memex Machine', which is often seen as the intellectual precursor to hypertext and the world wide web. "The perfection of these specific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge…
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Social Isolation Linked to the web.
This study using Grannoveter's concept of 'strong and weak ties' is interesting, not so much because it is about the Internet, but because it blames the Internet. You could say exactly the opposite (and some researchers do); that the Internet actually increases social networks. Robert Putnam in his mammoth study of the decline of 'social…
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The Internet and Political Communication
1) What are the Internet's political features? 2 Why is the Internet important for politics? 3) How does it impact upon the public sphere? What sort of politics? There are a number of different ways that the Internet can be discussed in terms of politics; there are the issues that surround the governance and regulation…
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Asia Pacific Development Information Programme
As the Internet becomes more important within social, economic, and political processes, issues of Internet governance will continue to come to the fore. The governance of the Internet concerns all 'three sectors'; government, the private sector, and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). Together they confront a range of issues including technical standards, control, and access to the…