Children suffer strongly from homeschooling in Lockdown (tags)
The situation, which UNICEF described as a "catastrophic education crisis" at the beginning of March, continues. In addition, errors, stereotypes, misjudgements and trivialization prevail in the discussion about children, Corona and digital distance learning.
Put Facebook & Co. in its place! (tags)
There has been growing concern in civil society and among policymakers that these practices conflict with users' right to privacy, enable manipulation and disinformation campaigns, and ultimately undermine the principle of a public sphere subject to democratic rules.
The question arises: Why does such a narrative have to be invented, why does it have to be prescribed and enforced by a few powerful and rich people? Here, an agenda is despotically implemented and then colored with fine words, in which we have no say.
Democracy beyond Corona (tags)
Whether the experiences of the lockdown will result in lasting damage in the sense of a democratically consumptive "new normality" depends not least on whether it is possible to take up and strengthen the very existing democracy-building impulses and initiatives - from "Black Lives Matter" to "Fridays for Future".
Finance Capitalism and the Digital Economy (tags)
The financialization of the economy and the rise of the commercial Internet are directly connected... At the beginning of the digital economy, as Marianna Mazzucato and others showed, was an investing state that took over the installment financing for digitalization.
Authoritarian Capitalism and Digital Demagogue (tags)
Trump is not an individual phenomenon but one of many structural manifestations of the sudden change of neoliberalism into authoritarian capitalism.
Authoritarian Capitalism (tags)
Phenomena like Trump and the new nationalisms confirm the actuality of the theory of the authoritarian personality articulated by Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, and Theodor Adorno. By their structure, capitalist social media encourage narcissism and are not social media
Social media giants feel the heat at Palestinian digital conference (tags)
At the Palestine Digital Activism Forum, representatives from both Google and Facebook faced a crowd that demanded to know why the two companies cooperate with Israel’s attempts at silencing Palestinians.
NPR's Marketplace: The Voice of Loanshark Capitalism (tags)
The Los Angeles based show Marketplace is NPR's voice of Wall Street banksters, hedge fund billionaires
Protesters Enact Symbolic "Die In" to Unwelcome Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley (tags)
Over 2000 vibrant protesters from many different Indian American communities joined together outside the SAP Center in San Jose to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of "Digital India" and Hindutva. They raised many issues with Modi's leadership, ranging from forced conversions to Hinduism, Internet surveillance, arrest of political bloggers, harassment of human rights activists, blind eye to rapes, dispossession of small farmers, rewriting of Indian history, and the 2002 Gujarat massacre.
Digitalization Makes Us Happily Unemployed! (tags)
Political upheavals often precede technical revolutions.. The digital revolution hardly seems to have produced social or political revolutions.. Digitalization penetrates and changes the economy and life of people as the industrial Revolution once did.
San Diego May Dai Workers Film Festival (tags)
Workers Film Festival returns to San Diego this May Day weekend at the Digital Gym Cinema in North Park! We've got a strong line-up of the most recent international films that connect workers and social justice struggles. Join us Friday May 2nd - Sunday May 4th. We'll also have a labor art exhibit, live music and a pop-up book shop.
net neutrality
Exonerate Edward Snowden Unconditionally! (tags)
NSA
On the Way to the Digital Society (tags)
The net must be understood for what it is: a marvelous creative space that forces us to question traditional norms and values, organizational forms and superficially accepted conditions to find new ways into the future.
free expression
Digital Physics reality Series (tags)
As quantum theory has slowly emerged new theories of everything (TOE) have come to the forefront. Digital Physics is one such theory which supposedly undercuts M-theory with Occam's Razor.
1000 Artists from 40 Countries Merge Digital Art and Environmental Activism (tags)
The A&I Gallery in Hollywood hosts the U.S. premiere of Common Ground 2010, an exhibition of new media work at the intersection of art, technology, and eco-activism - all with an environmental theme - that runs from July 8 - August 13, 2010
256.com correspondent Godwin Agaba blams goverment for Kigali bombings and seeks asylum (tags)
On Thursday, March 4, two days after Senator Russ Feingold, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa, called for the opening of political space in Rwanda, grenades exploded again in Kigali, with 16 people hurt, some critically. The Feingold Statement on the Fragility of Democracy in Africa was read into the Congressional Record and released to the public on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, as tension continued to increase in the run up to this year's Rwandan presidential election, with polls scheduled for August 9th, and opposition parties still struggling to convene, register, campaign, and avoid arrest. Rwandan 256.com correspondent Godwin Agaba says that the Kagame government is staging the bombings to frighten the population and create an excuse to arrest its enemies. For more info, see Digital Journal, http://www.digitaljournal.com/user/51...
The Consequences of the Digital Disruption for the Economy (tags)
The greatest social and economic revolution since industrialization opens up unlimited possibilities for people and businesses. Craigslist made a million-dollar business out of a billion-dollar business. A redefinition of unemployment and a discussion of unconditional basic income are inevitable.
LA Eastside: Street Food Vendor Situation (tags)
Two stories on LA Eastside highlight the effects of gentrification and the train, the media and blogosphere, and
Brazil: PSDB's laboratory to new totalitarianism? (tags)
First and unique nation in the world that uses a fully digital electoral process that can't be verified, for proposition of M.G.'s Senator Eduardo Azeredo tries out to innovate now by becoming the pioneer in demanding identification and rates for internet users.
Documentary "Dare Not Walk Alone" will be Appearing in October at... (tags)
...The CT Film Festival ~ "Dare Not Walk Alone" Documentary. Director: Jeremy Dean. We all know about Selma and Birmingham, but it is a little-discussed fact that St. Augustine, Florida was the center of great civil unrest and was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1967. The effects of this conflict are still very apparent in today's St. Augustine, where although it is not official, segregation and prejudice still hover over the lives of many African-Americans.
"The French Guy" will be Appearing in October at... (tags)
...The CT Film Festival ~ "The French Guy"(Feature Director): Ann Marie Fleming. ~ Have you ever heard indecipherable sounds coming from the other side of a wall? Were they cries of joy or pain that you heard? Such is the premise for Ann Marie Fleming's wonderfully absurdist comedy The French Guy. Living next door to just such a racket is our titular character, a French painter who simply wants to finish his next masterpiece - but the noises keep getting louder. What is going on over there?
El mundo abraza a Fidel (tags)
Así podría resumirse la amplia repercusión internacional que ha tenido el 80 cumpleaños del líder indiscutible de la Revolución cubana.
Tim Leary Reanimation Event (tags)
Tim Leary "Reanimation" Event Planned
small WORLD interview with Richard M. Smith, Digital Privacy (tags)
Interview with Richard M. Smith about digital privacy.
subMedia seeks content for second issue of ¡Molotov! (tags)
Independent Media Group subMedia (submediatv.com) is looking for writings, films, digital art and music for the second issue of its multimedia DVZ (DVD/Zine) ¡Molotov!
Wireless World: Smart-cards vs. RFID tags (tags)
A story about the government abusing civil rights.
Progressive World Television News Seeks Guerilla Videos (tags)
Our progressive television news show is looking for short, rough, unedited digital videos shot by ordinary people of extraordinary events.
Wireless World: Fighting terror wirelessly (tags)
Great story about a civil liberties in today's post - Sept. 11 digital world.
The Web: New views on the 'digital divide' (tags)
This is a great story on the problems of the digital divide.
Annihilation of Human Dignity (tags)
Masters and their sorcerer's apprentices
vrsn.NET_WORKS An online exhibition of digital arts and activism http://versionfest.com/default/archives/000193.html
Learn Adobe Photoshop and digital image editing (tags)
Class available on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and digital image editing
Cuba will be host of encounter on Gender and New Technologies (tags)
From the 18 to the 20 of May of 2004 it will be made in Havana, Cuba, VI Latin American Encounter "Woman and Communication". In this opportunity the central subject will be Sort and new technologies of the information and the communications.
With Blessings from the FCC and Congress, the High-tech Industry Wants to Privatize the Internet. What Happens When you Have to Pay to Join the Information Revolution?
A Guide to Videotaping Police at Demonstrations (tags)
A Training Manual for Videotaping Police at Demonstrations
Can the Digital Hub Survive Hollywood? (tags)
If you can ignore some of the Mac boosterism, there's some serious info about Hollywood and their goals of preventing people from copying their digital data.
excerpt from "Dreams in Rebellion: The Battle of Seattle" (tags)
Anthony Wilden quote in Daniel White's essay that blew my mind.
ALERT: Congress Calls For Public Participation on Digital Music Issues (tags)
ALERT: Congress Calls For Public Participation on Digital Music Issues Submit Comments Opposing Technology Mandates
Scientologists Use Bad Law to Silence Dissent (tags)
This shocking abuse of the DMCA comes from DaveNet.
aRT rOCK hALF-sYMPHONIC wORK pROJECT. (tags)
PEARLCOPPER is proud to announce his new Rock'n Roll project called "Devil in Light Travel".
Digital Video Journalism: The Pew International Journalism Conference (tags)
Report on the Pew Journalism/Columbia Univ. Journalism conference about DV (digital video) production and distribution; analysis of media spin on issues of Globalization and Yugoslavia.
Digital Video Journalism (tags)
Report on the Pew Journalism/Columbia Univ. Journalism conference about DV (digital video) production and distribution; analysis of media spin on issues of Globalization and Yugoslavia.
Digital Video Journalism (tags)
Report on the Pew Journalism/Columbia Univ. Journalism conference about DV (digital video) production and distribution; analysis of media spin on issues of Globalization and Yugoslavia