Even today, the old adage “What goes around comes around” is alive and well. Or, wait, maybe its “Cheaters never prosper”…? When it comes to Mirko Tobias Schäfer’s article “Participation Inside,” it seems once more that civil disobedience just doesn’t…
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Critiquing Matthew Hindman’s “The Myth of Digital Democracy” | techPresident
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Last night political scholar Micah Sifry debated Matthew Hindman at Yale; prior to the debate he published this preview of his response to Hindman’s article. He challenges Hindman on both his generalizations, and his neglect of technologies that don’t fit…
Little Brother: More Scary Truth Than Fiction
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
I almost quit reading Little Brother when I reached the chapter where Marcus is subjected to psychological and physical torture by dubiously constituted Homeland Security authorities. Not because I felt the scenario to be too outlandish, but because I found…
Commercialism and the Internet
by Mike • • 0 Comments
The word “capital” seems to be coming up a lot lately in our readings; cultural capital, digital capital, social capital. A spin-off of the word capital is capitalism. Capitalism is linked to commerce by virtue of capital; in the sense…
Political Freedom? Or Misguided Google?
by lminnis209 • • 2 Comments
Hindman picks apart political freedom on the internet. Is our society really democratic now that people can say whatever they want or are people more controlled by the internet by unclear gatekeepers? What’s funny is that politicians saw only the good…
I was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year? Where’s My Prize?!
by Ryan • • 10 Comments
In 2006, Time Magazine named me “Person of the Year”. It’s true. Google it. They named you, too. Had I realized that I was so important, I would’ve let you all know long ago. I am a filmmaker. I am…
How full of myself am I?
by Mariana • • 3 Comments
Schaefer’s article only reiterated a lot of things I have already discovered on my own about a lot of companies now and how they put their users to work for them, without pay or credit to improve their software. Thank…
Digital Participation: How Important is it in Society?
by chayden • • 0 Comments
With the advent of the internet, many began seeing the vast potential for people to become more connected within society in a variety of ways. Both authors Schaeffer and Hindman discuss the idea of participation within the context of new…
Proposal: Using New Media in the Classroom
by Ryan • • 0 Comments
Using new media in the classroom presents new challenges for educators and students alike. Educators must: 1. Contend with the availability of the new media to their student demographic (do the students have access to computers and the internet, or…
The Demise of Public Education?
by Mike • • 1 Comment
It is increasingly difficult to keep up with technological advances; let alone advances in new digital media (NDM). Having to constantly stay knowledgeable of the latest NDM means that people without access to computer technology, let alone the training to…