Stallman on surveillance »

17 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Technology theory veteran Richard Stallman writes an op-ed in Wired Magazine which is well worth some attention. Stallman argues convincingly that digital surveillance has gone much too far and that g... »

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Deep packet inspection »

15 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Tech lingo transfers into the everyday vocabulary almost like osmosis. Whenever there is big news or debate over one digital technology or another, there is a new phrase for the public to pick up. You... »

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Godin on Google+ shared recommendations »

14 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

American writer Seth Godin is a good candidate for what Evgeny Morozov calls “digital utopian”. Jaron Lanier uses the term “cybernetic totalist” for the same view: that the digital revolution is a for... »

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Fifteen clicks of online fame »

13 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Who wouldn’t want to be a model? To have your face all over town, promoting the new car, razor or anti-aging creme? With Google’s announcement this can be a dream come true, at least on a small scale.... »

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Dude, it’s code – we can do anything! »

12 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

“Dude, it’s code – we can do anything!” That line has stayed in my head for years, I heard it at a games conference five or six years ago. It was a panel on emotions in games and one programmer* elabo... »

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Techno-centrism as neo-liberalism »

10 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

I meant to change topics, but Morozov published another thought-worthy column in Germany today, this time in the Süd-Deutsche Zeitung, where he discusses techno-centrism (or techno-utopianism) as a co... »

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Teddybears over Belarus »

9 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

It’s Europe’s last dictatorship, run for almost two decades by Alexander Lukashenka. No free media, opposition leaders in prison (and often beaten), leader cult surrounding the dictator… simply put, i... »

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More Morozov »

7 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Following up on yesterday’s post on the work of Evgeny Morozov, in his most recent book To Save Everything, Click Here, the writer digs deeper into some of the concepts discussed in the Die Zeit colum... »

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Morozov’s Three Principles for Seeing Through Internet Mumbo-Jumbo »

6 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

This week’s best read was US-based Belarusian writer Evgeny Morozov’s deconstruction of the popular internet intellectuals discourse in Die Zeit (which graciously provides the original English version... »

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Silicon Valley’s Favourite Intellectual Property »

5 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Intellectual property rights online are obviously a topic of hot debate as the digital domain expands; just think about ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. The so-called reformists are in most cases pirate ideologist... »

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