links - it and society

china

• Han Han (韩寒) - Interview at Asia Weekly (亚洲周刊) http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/01/asia-weekly-interview-with-han-han-i/ Han Han : 2010
• Han Han (韩寒) on Google, Internet and China: I am Just Speculating http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/01/han-han-%e9%9f%a9%e5%af%92-on-google-intern et-and-china-i-am-just-speculating/ His fantasy after Google leaves: "2016: The number of Internet users in China drops down to 1 million. All websites are merged into a single website. It does not matter what URL you enter because you will be sent to that website. The updates are based upon the People’s Daily ... " Han Han : 2010
• Han Han - Chinese bloggers http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/han-han/ China news tagged with: "Han Han" at China Digital Times. Very sarcastic and funny! And pretty truthful it seems, it makes me wonder again, why some things are allowed and other things are given death sentence! But then, as he says himself: (about punishment for vulgar text messages:) "after going against the government’s wishes all that happens is your service is stopped (not like that rural person in Guizhou, where his punishment was having his life stopped)." Han Han : 2010
• Han Han: From now on, I'm a vulgar person http://sun-zoo.com/chinageeks/2010/01/23/han-han-from-now-on-im-a-vulgar-person/ Han Han : 2010
• The internet is God's present to China http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=24558&t=1&c=4 On the one hand, the internet is a tool to make money. On the other, the Communist dictatorship is afraid of freedom of expression. ... The internet has brought about the awakening of ideas among the Chinese. Liu Xiaobo : 28 April 2009
• Twitter with Chinese characteristics http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/06/twitter-with-chinese-characteristics/57731/ " ... social media, notably Twitter, have "asymmetric" potential in China and in theory should help individuals and dissidents more than they help the censors and authorities." James Fallow : 5 June 2010

ethics

• Google in the Garden of Good and Evil http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=12593&article=Google+in+the+Garden+of+Good+and+Evil A thoughtful and probing discussion of google morality. Andrew Keen : 2006.05.09

future

• Berkman Center for Internet and Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ "A research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development." "Teaching, research, advising, advocacy" Berkman Center : 2006
• Isenberg Blog   http://www.isen.com/blog/ David S. Isenberg's musings about loci of intelligence and stupidity. Internet neutrality. www.isen.com/blog/ : David S. Isenberg
• The Mashup Future of the Web http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6375525.stm "The way we use the web is changing and the future lies in mixing, mash-ups and pipes, says columnist Bill Thompson. When the web was young we were happy just to see words and pictures on the screen in front of us. All backgrounds were grey, all fonts were Times and anything other than a static image required a "helper application" to be loaded and run, so that video clips and sounds played in separate windows on screen. Compared to the text-based internet of the 1980s it was heaven, but it was only the beginning." Bill Thompson : 2007

general effects

• "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" book review (A Crunchy-Granola Path From Macramé and LSD to Wikipedia and Google) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin "The Internet, after all, began during the cold war as an attempt to create a network of computers that would be resilient in case of nuclear attack. Its instigator, the United States Department of Defense, was at the very center of the culture being countered by the 'Whole Earth Catalog.' How could the romantic, utopian culture of the 1960’s, with its deep suspicions about modernity and its machinery, be closely linked to one of the most important technological revolutions of the last hundred years?" Review of book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner (University of Chicago Press) Edward Rothstein : 2006
• As We May Think http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush "Urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind." "Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge." Vannevar Bush : 1945
• BBC World Click http://www.bbcworld.com/click/ News and comment about IT in the world today BBC : 2007
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Chapter 4 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html "Taking the Whole Earth Digital" Fred Turner : 2006
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Introduction http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415.html "How did the cultural meaning of information technology shift so drastically?" Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism Fred Turner : 2006
• Keen on media, culture, and technology http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/ Writer on culture and technology, "google in the garden of good and evil" Andrew Keen : 10 May 2006
• Lawrence Lessig http://www.lessig.org/blog/ Lawyer and writer. Visionary, or shallow hack? Lawrence Lessig : 10 May 2006
• Rough Type http://www.roughtype.com/ "mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it wanders into other areas at times." Author has a book out, Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr : 2007
• The Wealth of Networks http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/ How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. "In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing, and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves." In html, pdf, and other formats, with wiki discussion, concordance, and more. Yochai Benkler : 2006
• The Web Means the End of Forgetting http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=all " ... a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: How best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing ..." Jeffrey Rosen - New York Times : 25 July 2010
• Watching Vista http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2007/02/06/watching-vista "the emergence of Vista and the protection measures it affords to certain forms of content gives us a glimpse of a new world, one we are entering almost without noticing. It is the world of protected content and the secured network. The internet that we know today is changing, turning from an open, enabling and profoundly public space into a communications system which can be regulated, controlled, monitored and – where necessary – curtailed." Bill Thompson : february 2007

hacktivism

• Cult of the Dead Cow http://www.cultdeadcow.com/ hacktivism. defcon. unclear, fuzzy, aggressive. useful? Oxblood Ruffin : 2006
• Hactivismo http://hacktivismo.com/ hacktivism. defcon. unclear, fuzzy, aggressive. useful? Oxblood Ruffin : 2006

net neutrality

• The Real Issue with Net Neutrality http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/1641257&from=rss ""TechDirt brings into focus one of the largest problems in the net neutrality debate, not the issues themselves, rather it's the people involved and the lies they like to sling. An example of this is certainly the number of lobbyists that are being looked to as 'experts' and getting their opinions published as such." SlashDot : August 2006

studies

• Center for Democracy and Technology http://www.cdt.org/ "Working for democratic values and constitional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media." CDT : 2006
• Citizen Lab http://www.citizenlab.org/ "An interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics." Citizen Lab : 2006
• CiviBlog http://www.civiblog.org/ "An international initiative with the aim of giving voice to individuals and organizations involved in global civil society. We provide platforms and resources for NGOs, activists, dissidents and individuals at risk through the medium of blogging." CiviBlog : 2006
• Global Voices Online http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/ "the hub for an international community of bloggers who want to communicate with the broader world. Its main components are a blog, wiki, and aggregator of international blogs." ... "lives on a server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society" ... "we seek to enable everyone who wants to speak to have the means to speak — and everyone who wants to hear that speech, the means to listen to it." blog : 2006
• The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) http://www.isoc.org/ "The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)." ISOC : 2007
• ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/ "Where Technology Means Business". Technology and society articles. ZDNet : 2007

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