The Global Impact of the Internet
Friday, August 05, 2011
Is the internet helping to free people from oppressive governments or is it simply giving those authoritarian regimes another way to spy on dissidents? Ethan Zuckerman from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society joins Brooke and Bob to discuss the internet’s role — for better or for worse — in uprisings from Iran to Egypt.
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Trouble for Elsevier, the Leading Academic Publisher
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How Music Conveys Emotion
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Linsanity, Why Adele makes us cry, and more
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Revenge Porn's Latest Frontier
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The Changing Nature of Knowledge in the Internet Age
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The Facebook Show
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A Strong Case of Linsanity
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Journalists Allowed Into Los Angeles' Dependency Courts
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Graphic videos from Syria, covering the political horse race, and more
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Virtual Pacifism
Comments [1]
Global Network Initiative - should we support them? Should we chastise them for not getting companies like FB to sign up?
They don't have social media links on their site. I'm not apt to support an organization that doesn't have enough know how to utilize these tools.
Someone clarify for me?
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