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500 Reasons I'm Glad I Don't Work in Arizona
Jason MIttell describes the implications of bill that would punish professors from expressing an opinion in the classroom.
education  power  politics  stupid 
february 2007 by McChris
Core77: Is design political?
As a cultural studies person, the answer is obviously "yes," but Jennie Winhall's Foulcauldian essay might be good for introducing undergrads to the power issues embedded in the design of things.
design  power  politics 
february 2007 by McChris
From Power to Authority in Communications Research
I haven't had a chance to read all of this, but this looks like a really interesting critical history of the communication discipline.
academic  history  power  media 
february 2007 by McChris
AlterNet: Wikipedia vs. Women
"WikiChix was recently formed by women contributors sick of how male-dominated Wikipedia has become," Annalee Newitz says.
wikipedia  feminism  gender  power 
december 2006 by McChris
Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?
Aaron Schwartz crunched the numbers and it seems that a core group of 500 editors do most of the grunt work on Wikipedia, while most new content comes from casual users.
wikipedia  production  statistics  politics  power 
september 2006 by McChris
Slashdot | More Wiki Than Ever
Jimmy Wales writes to Slashdot to address concerns about the editorial system being tested in Germany.
wikipedia  slashdot  wiki  power 
september 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Corporate Media Censors MoveOn
First Adbusters, now MoveOn has an ad rejected by broadcasters for having an anti-corporate message. It won't happen under this adminstration, but the FCC needs to regulate advertising, so these opinions can enter the "marketplace of ideas."
advertising  broadcast  power  politics 
july 2006 by McChris
Can Blogging Derail Your Career?
Siva Vaidhyanathan discusses Juan Cole's role as a blogging academic and the controversies that surround him. It's nice to see The Chronicle run a piece favorable to blogging.
academic  blog  politics  power  publicsphere 
july 2006 by McChris
Microradio's Second Wave
The FCC is stepping up enforcement of unlicensed microradio operators and levvying stiffer fines. This post suggests that people are still clamoring for access to the airwaves in urban areas.
microradio  citizensmedia  radio  power  FCC  publicpolicy 
july 2006 by McChris
Wired News: MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song
power  myspace  copyright  politics  stupid 
july 2006 by McChris
Defending Markos And the Discourse Revolution
Juan Cole's take on the political establishment's increasingly strident criticism of blogs like Daily Kos. There's not that much new here, but it's worth reading nonetheless.
blog  politics  power  media 
june 2006 by McChris
Unpacking My Library: The Perils of the Blogging Academic?
Chris Anderson of NY IMC and Columbia University has a thoughtful post responding to Yale's decision not to hire power-blogging professor Juan Cole after Zionist and right-wing pressure groups fought the departments' decision to hire Cole.
academic  blog  power  politics 
june 2006 by McChris
News of Wikipedia's Death Greatly Exaggerated (Clay Shirky)
Interesting discussion of Wikipedia's model of control. I'm also starting to suspect that the project has scaled too large to be managable.
power  Web2.0  wikipedia 
may 2006 by McChris
Anti-war West Point grads told to stop using school's name
Military academy lawyers send group a nastygram citing trademark infringement. Your tax dollars at work..
power  intellectualproperty  anti-war  trademark 
may 2006 by McChris
Talking Points Memo: phone companies are spooky places ...
A TPM reader describes his experience working at a Bell. It doesn't surprise me that intelligence folks are experts in data management and mining, but it's icky the RBOCs would be so buddy-buddy with the intelligence world.
power  telecom  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
US State Department abuses Wikipedia
Little Inquirer story about how the US State Department is using content from Wikipedia. I think the author has the US Secretary of State (Condi Rice) confused with a state official with a similar title.
co-optation  politics  power  wikipedia 
may 2006 by McChris
CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs
CIA now uses blogs to get public opinion data.
politics  power  blog  surveillance 
april 2006 by McChris
Main Page - Wikitruth
Via Slashdot, a site devoted to Wikipedia articles that have been deleted, frozen, or otherwise hidden for presumably political reasons.
freeculture  politics  Web2.0  power  wikipedia 
april 2006 by McChris
The Stranger: Bitter Pill
Anti-choice pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for antibiotics because they come from clinics that perform abortions.
stupid  cruel  privacy  power  feminism 
april 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: Coffee (TM)
Starbucks has threatened to sue DoubleShot Coffee in my hometown of Tulsa for using the phrase "double shot," which refers to two shots of espresso. Jerks.
starbucks  coffee  power  intellectualproperty  tulsa  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Roomba Cockfight
Analee Newitz discusses hacking Roombas for "cockfighting." I'm not sure if the last graf is pure humor or if she did want to make the point that many companies do regard hardware hacking as dangerous.
hack  power  humor  copyright 
april 2006 by McChris
OhGizmo! » Airing Dirty Laundry: Engadget’s Exclusionist Tactics Are NOT An Isolated Incident
Interesting blog post alleging the AOL-owned gadget blog Engadget has a "blacklist." If a blacklisted blog breaks a gadget story, Engadget editors will hold off on publishing until a non-blacklisted site reports the same story.
power  blog  ethics  business  co-optation  news 
march 2006 by McChris
Lawrence Lessig: openDRM
Lessig on Sun Microsystem's effort to create an open DRM standard that would allow for fair-use. Like Lessig, I'm not crazy about this idea, but if we have to live with DRM, we should at least have an open standard.
copyright  freeculture  DRM  power  intellectualproperty  media 
march 2006 by McChris
MediaRights:Saving Access TV
Changes in FCC regulations are threatening the franchise agreements that fund public-access TV systems. The Manhattan Neighborhood Network system has developed a strategy for fighting back.
TV  citizensmedia  publicpolicy  politicaleconomy  power 
march 2006 by McChris
How to right the copyright wrongs
Nice BBC column describing the issues at stake with computers and copyright. I'd give this to people new to the debate.
copyright  freeculture  power  politicaleconomy  intellectualproperty 
march 2006 by McChris
Ticketed for wearing earphones on a bus
Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't move to Orange County. I don't think I saw a bus the whole time I was there.
lawenforcement  stupid  surveillance  power  music 
march 2006 by McChris
Map of Global Billionaires
Map at Forbes.com of the hometowns of the world's billionaires. Forbes needs to get on the Ajax bandwagon because the Flash interface is awful.
power  business  ajax 
march 2006 by McChris
Indymedia, Food Not Bombs on “Terrorist Watch List”
Austin Indymedia reports on a talk given by an FBI officer at UT Law School. I'm not sure how giving food to hungry people is a terrorist act.
power  surveillance  indymedia  lawenforcement  anti-war  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
jill/txt » censorship of research
US academic journals are forbidden to publish research by Iranian nationals, even if they're working in Norway.
academic  power  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
]Autonomous Village Under Siege by Korean Troops
A rural village is being threatened because the US Army wants their land.
power  politics  anarchism 
march 2006 by McChris
O'Reilly-FOX Security threatening callers
blog post suggesting Bill O'Reilly is using FOX News security to intimidate callers.
power  TV  politics  radio 
march 2006 by McChris
The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy
Republican spyware with no privacy policy
surveillance  politics  power  spyware 
march 2006 by McChris
Wikipedia Disavows “Digital Culture”
wikipedia  newmedia  power  academic 
february 2006 by McChris
Inside Higher Ed :: Facebook Face Off
Syracuse students disciplined for talking smack about a freshman comp instructor on Facebook.
yasns  surveillance  power  blog 
february 2006 by McChris
Attention Trust
Organization to push for greater transparency in the way that user data is collected, stored, and analyzed. It's a great idea, but seems a little impractical today.
surveillance  attention  Web2.0  power 
february 2006 by McChris
Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
Slavoj Žižek's take on "24".
TV  power 
february 2006 by McChris
Wired 14.02: The Rootkit of All Evil
Bruce Sterling's take on the Sony/BMG rootkit debacle.
copyright  power  publicpolicy 
february 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: Google China's media literacy lesson
Side-by-side searches for "tiananmen" in google.com and google.cn.
power  searchengine  China  censorship 
february 2006 by McChris
Surveillance Prompts a Suit: Police v. Police - New York Times
NYPD spying on union and political activities of officers.
surveillance  politics  power  labor  socialjustice 
february 2006 by McChris
ad free blog *saying no to corporate advertising*
blog  media  power 
january 2006 by McChris
Absolute Powerpoint
A nice complement to Tufte's "Cognitive Style of PowerPoint." Explores history of ppt.
power  PowerPoint  design  mediaspecificity 
january 2006 by McChris

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