What’s more socially harmful: politicians not knowing what sound bite will play well or voters being mislead by scurrilous misinformation? New Hampshire is one state
Category: democracy and the information order
radio + internet + letter to your senator = democracy in action
This project, reported by WNYC and npr’s On the Media is one of the best uses of web crowd sourcing I’ve heard about. They ask
Wikileaks Conversation Continues
Interesting piece in NYT blog “The Lede” about online activists’ response to credit card companies and PayPal “blacklisting” Wikileaks. The entry includes the YouTube “manifesto”
Leaking Irony
While I work on more extended analysis of the WikiLeaks situation (among other things the obvious connection to my work on how geometries of information
Regulating the Supply of Law
From the “Friends and Relatives of the Department” Files… The ways that states regulate professions is a topic of sociological interest. The degree to which
Madoff, Courts, Information, and Reform
NPR’s All Things Considered carried a piece on 29 June titled “Madoff Victim: Financier’s Apology Does Nothing” that contained an interview with, Miriam Siegman, an
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