Five key questions – and answers – about how our social horizons may shrink as we use more technology
Ethan Zuckerman is the director of MIT's Center for Civic
Politics Everywhere: Cooking Curry
bq. An Indian family in Singapore has agreed not to
Potpourri
* Henry and John Quiggin on "Keynesianism in Europe":http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/26/hard-keynesianism-in-the-european-union/. *
Really, Unlock the NSF!
This "post":http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/04/20/us-national-science-foundation-blocks-global-voices-advocacy-website/ by Ethan Zuckerman is pretty extraordinary, and finishes
Epistemic closure – climate change edition
Via via "Serendipity":http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=2297 and "Ethan Zuckerman":http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/03/09/links-for-2011-03-09/, an "article":http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/Hamilton_climate_interaction.pdf suggesting that
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Mapping the Spread of Unemployment During the Recession
Via "Ethan Zuckerman":http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/09/27/mapping-the-recession/.
Blogs and Bullets
The US Institute of Peace has "just published":http://www.usip.org/files/resources/pw65.pdf (PDF) a
Me, I’m looking forward to the HRB hearings
Ethan Zuckerman on methodological challenges in social media research. bq.
Text-Messaging as State Repression
bq. In the latest twist on Internet repression, governments don't
And Yet More on Twitter and Iran
Stephen Hawking once wrote a paper where the title of