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Published in: HomeA secret grand jury against Assange is not "change we can believe in"
Wikileaks and the treatment of Bradley Manning have again revealed the gulf between Obama's idealistic rhetoric and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom online to offline: lessons from Netroots UK
An in-depth break-down of several events at the conference for online activists, Netroots UK. Includes commentary on...
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Published in: HomeA press fit for the purpose?
Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the...
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Published in: HomeDenis Dutton and Arts and Letters Daily: the authority of the aggregator and the shift in power from information to meaning
Denis Dutton, founder and editor of Arts and Letters Daily, has died. His daily selection of reading material was a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Murdoch debate: What next?
The EU is expected to clear NewsCorp's bid to acquire all of BSkyB this week. David Elstein gives his account of an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAu revoir, Iain Dale
Britain's leading Conservative blogger has called it a day and moved on to be a publisher and broadcaster, leaving...
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Published in: HomeIf you rule by code you will fall by code: the philosophy of Wikileaks
Diplomatic protocols and Internet protocols share rules but differ in their purpose. When the hacker ethic is...
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Published in: HomeBerlusconi’s politics of an eternal present
Berlusconi dictates an idea of the eternal present based upon a model of eternal youth and embodied in the...
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Published in: HomeWikiLeaks and democracy
The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a...
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Published in: HomeIf Assange is a spy, then so am I
The job and duty of journalists is to expose lies and their consequences. Julian Assange has shown that one does not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs it time for Murdoch's empire to be reined in?: A fascinating debate on News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB
Is this the moment to halt the expansion of Richard Murdoch's media empire in the UK? An OurKingdom post, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTake Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves
We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStudent Power: 1968... 2010
Is a student movement starting in England in opposition to the Government's cuts and marketisation of higher...
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Published in: HomeEgyptian blogs: reporting the news unfit to print
The Egyptian blogosphere has gained real influence in the political process
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Published in: HomeAuthentic journalism: weapon of the people
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan Murdoch be stopped? Britain examines its stable door
As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media...
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Published in: HomeRed lenses on a rainbow of revolutions
Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle after people power wins
With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....
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Published in: Shine A LightClare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web
The principles behind Clare Sambrook's double prize winning reports and why openDemocracy is happy to publish them.