Our Social Selves
Sherry Turkle’s 2012 TED Talk, Connected, But Alone? presents the latest iteration of her research on human-technology interaction. … Continue reading
Jerald Dana Cole
Clicktivism
The Kony 2012 video came up on my iPhone contemporaneously while eating at Zabar’s in NYC with a German academic.
Is the Internet Effective for Instigating Social Change?
I concur with Zeynep Tufekci’s argument that Internet instigated movements are easy to organize, but may be more disruptive than revolutionary in effecting social change. … Continue reading
Commentary on How the Internet is Disrupting Politics
Timothy Lee wrote on Internet-based challenges to the political scene prior to the November 2016 elections. In retrospect, his observations were particularly prescient.
The Second Superpower
This is my response to James Moore’s article, “The Second Superpower” in Extreme Democracy.
Leveling the Playing Field
Many of us thought the Internet would level the playing field in politics, governance, publishing and any system entailing information exchange back in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Alas, I am of that age…
Bias in Tagging and Indexing Schemes
Dear Julia et al. Some feedback on your article… … Continue reading
Commentary on Politics, Hacktivism and Slacktivism
With reference to David Weinberger’s exegesis, please watch…
Fake News
The good coming out of Caitlin Dewey’s article on the “Facebook Fake News-Writer” is that people will be more generally aware of the problem.
The New News
Dear David: Regarding the old news post (is that a triple oxymoron or subliminal irony?)…