Damn! This should be where I am now but alas back in Istanbul, blogging about it… Enjoy the feast Onnik and other friends there… The Summit can be followed thru Twitter #gvsummit2010….
A video (and cyberculture roundup): Know Your Meme: Challenging a YouTube Take Down with Fair Use
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTxZ_zxAv8 The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim. For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation at http://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube For more on Fair Use in Online Video see the Center for Social Media at http://meme.ly/KnowFairUse To read more about the … Read more
Berkman center presents: “A Tale of Two Blogospheres
A Tale of Two Blogospheres
from Berkman Center Newsfeed
The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the release of a new paper exploring U.S. political blogs:
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and the Right, by Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw, and Victoria Stodden
This paper compares the practices of discursive production and participation among top U.S. political blogs on the left, right, and center during the summer of 2008 and, based on qualitative coding of the top 155, finds evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and the technologies, institutions, and practices of participation across political blogs. Sites on the left adopt more participatory technical platforms; are comprised of significantly fewer sole-authored sites; include user blogs; maintain more fluid boundaries between secondary and primary content; include longer narrative and discussion posts; and (among the top half of the blogs in the papers’ sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.
The variations observed between the left and right wings of the U.S. political blogosphere provide insights into how varied patterns of technological adoption and use within a single society may produce distinct effects on democracy and the public sphere. The study also suggests that the prevailing techniques of domain-based link analysis used to study the political blogosphere to date may have fundamental limitations.
To read the full abstract and download the paper, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Tale_Two_Blogospheres_Discursive_Practices_Left_Right
Also, The Nation has published a piece about the study, as well as an interview with Yochai Benkler.
AP Stylebook [finally] Officially Changes “Web site” to “website”
AP Stylebook Officially Changes “Web site” to “website” from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The story of how Facebook and Twitter users lobbied the AP Stylebook to change ?web site? to ?website? from Bloggasm by Simon On the day the AP Stylebook announced it would change the requirement that its users refer to online destinations as ?web … Read more
EU-Digest’s list of TV news reports…
Alternative TV News Reports from EU-DIGEST: Listed below are a few of these alternative TV news stations, which in streaming video and right on your own lap – or desktop can provide you with a different perspective of what is really happening in the world. EURO-News Live: http://www.livestation.com/channels/1?page=466 BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/news_summary/8070822.stm RT Russian World News reports: … Read more
Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship
Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship, 12 March? Global: World Day Against Cyber Censorship from Global Voices Online by Diego Casaes Internet censorship is still a major issue in many countries worldwide. With that in mind, the Paris-based international organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) is promoting its yearly World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March … Read more
Cyberculture roundup: “10 Types Of People Who Try To Quit Facebook? And Fail
Facebook sends more traffic to broadcast sites than to newspaper sites
from Editors Weblog – all postings by Maria Conde
10 Types Of People Who Try To Quit Facebook? And Fail
from All Facebook by Neil Vidyarthi
Global Voices at 5. Congratulations!
Five Years of Global Voices: Where they are now
from Global Voices Online by David Sasaki
The following was originally published at http://www.el-oso.net and is part of a series of posts commemorating Global Voices’ fifth anniversary and supporting of Global Voices’ 2009-10 online fundraising campaign. If you would like to support our work, please visit our Donate page. Thank you!
Five years ago I boarded a flight from San Diego to Boston to attend the 2004 Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center. This was just a month after George Bush won the 2004 election and so there was an element of group therapy to many of the panel discussions. 2004 was the year when, according to Wired Magazine, the Internet invented Howard Dean. Dean’s campaign was supposed to be the harbinger of a new era of net politics where the progressive grassroots took advantage of online tools like blogs and Meetup.com (this was before YouTube even existed) to bring about more enlightened, representative governance. Instead, according to the ever-snarky Register, ?organized religion, not net religion, won it for Bush.?
Danah Boyd int. in the Guardian, Facebook and activism and more..
One of the most prominent scholar on youth and social networking sites, Danah Boyd, is interviewed in the Guardian..
Danah Boyd: ‘People looked at me like I was an alien’
Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd talks about social networking, young people and how the web is more private than your home
What the New Facebook Privacy Rules Mean for Activists
from DigiActive.org by Mary Joyce
Yesterday Facebook enacted a new set of privacy rules, the purpose of which is to expand the information which all users share, making it ?easier for you to find and connect with the people you?re looking for.? However, according to a great analysis by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
4G network comes to Scandinavia
from BBC News | Europe | World Edition
Swedish and Norwegian mobile users could be among the first to use a fourth-generation (4G) mobile network.
Translated.by: crowdsourced volunteer translations to Eastern Euro languages
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Sesawe offers tools to circumvent web censorship
I had stopped shortly in a blogger/new media training session last Friday, that focused on Eurasian bloggers and new media people. You can check their work here:
Eurasian Stories | Digital Stories from Eurasia
and videos made in the workshop:
http://eurasianstories.blip.tv/
I have met Eric who works with a website called Sesawe. This site offers great tools and recommendations to circumvent web censorship. In their site:
Where sesawe matters:
| Yemen | Egypt | Syria | Cambodia | Kyrgyzstan | Moldova |
| France | North Korea | Kazakhstan | Morocco | Sri Lanka | China |
| Saudia Arabia | Ethiopia | Turkey | Belarus | Thailand | Sudan |
CHECK OUT MORE AT Sesawe
My brief notes from Eric’s speech: