The Price We Pay for Anonymous Mass Media: Abuse, Harassment, Misogyny »

28 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

In the past weeks, the video games world has been shocked by the hatred, threats and misogynist harassment associated with the so-called Gamergate-scandal, where trolls hiding behind aliases have atta... »

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Truth-Sayer Jaron Lanier Receives Peace Prize »

20 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Few people have inspired Netopia as Jaron Lanier. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Lanier received the Peace Prize of German Book Trade. A peace prize to a Silicon Valley-pioneer? While that may sound odd,... »

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Privacy as the User’s Problem? »

8 October 2014 | Per Strömbäck

As Netopia reports in Jane Whyatt’s story “The Herod Clause”, open wifis have surfaced as a new threat to privacy and security online. By using open wifis, users reveal e-mail addresses, passwords, an... »

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Will New Digital Commissioners Put Europe in Forefront of Internet Governance? »

19 September 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Welcome to Netopia, where technology meets society. The Juncker commission has a strong focus on digital, not one but two nominated commissioners to cover this field: the German Commissioner for Di... »

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Speculation on Digital Champion Commissioner »

5 September 2014 | Per Strömbäck

A leaked draft of the new European Commission suggests that there will not be one, but two new commissioners concerned with digital issues. One is the “Digital Champion” that the tech industry has dem... »

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Vive La France! Senate Report on Internet Governance »

6 August 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Netopia readers will recall that this editor and two of the main contributors – main writer Peter Warren and interviewee professor Murray Shanahan – addressed the French Senate this spring, following ... »

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Snowden, Greenwald and Young Einstein »

16 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

“If you can’t trust the governments of the world, who can you trust?” Thus said Young Einstein, played by Yahoo Serious in the 1988 Australian comedy movie with the same title. In this version, Einste... »

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Venice Juxtaposition (or the Smart Home Time Capsule) »

10 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Juxtapose. A fancy word from the art world, putting incompatible things together to create a contrast effect. Think Baz Luhrmann‘s apocalypse punk Romeo and Juliet. Or Duchamp’s “Fountain” (a urinal) ... »

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If Artificial Intelligence, What About Tax? »

4 July 2014 | Per Strömbäck

Welcome to Netopia, where technology meets society. In Philip K Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the protagonist Deckard fails at his job to identify “replicants”, human... »

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility »

29 June 2014 | Per Strömbäck

With great power comes great responsibility, so said Spider-Man (or was that Voltaire?). What greater power than knowing our most intimate relationships and emotions? It seems Facebook has that power;... »

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