Archive for the ‘Online communication’ Category
Friday, April 20th, 2012
People think I'm completely evil and what I'm doing is completely immoral, but at the end of the day I feel like I'm just educating people on technology.
That's Hunter Moore, founder of 'revenge porn' site IsAnyOneUp, as quoted by the BBC. Compare that with the rationale provided for an 'art' ...
Posted in Intellectual property issues, Online communication, Society and culture | Comments Off
Saturday, March 31st, 2012
VoIP software, like Skype, is a challenge for traditional telephony operators, who now have income from providing digital bandwidth, but are losing higher-margin operations, such as voice calls. Good to see the European Commission stand up for network neutrality on this one:
According to the European Commission, maintaining "net neutrality" – ...
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
I've recently started playing around with Storify. In the piece embedded below, I'm gathering together various different snippets concerning the interplay of copyright and creativity.
http://storify.com/funferal/copyright-and-creativity
Posted in Computing Technology, Intellectual property issues, International law and structures, Media regulation, Meta, Online communication, Society and culture | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
This article about PhoneDog's suing of a former employee, Noah Kravitz, over his twitter account is interesting in itself (they're claiming rights to the account followers, as a customer list, and seeking compensation on that basis). However, what caught my eye was the claim in the RTÉ sub-heading that Kravitz ...
Posted in Freedom of the press, Intellectual property issues, Online communication, Public Service Media | Comments Off
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Turns out that all Facebook user accounts, outside of the US and Canada, are overseen by its European headquarters in Ireland. That means that it's subject to Irish data protection rules, and the Irish data protection commissioner has now launched an investigation. This is one to watch.
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Posted on the BBC's live coverage of the miners' rescue effort in Chile:
Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, a former Ghanian miner and head of a miners' rights lobby group, tells BBC Focus on Africa that African mining could learn valuable lessons from Chile's experience. "It is a wake up call for all of ...
Posted in International Affairs, Labour issues, Online communication, Public Service Media | Comments Off
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Sitting in on my first IAMCR session - past of the Participatory Communication theme. Interesting to see some of the techniques used to facilitate participation in news programming, in particular. Currently watching a presentation about PeoPo in Taiwan. Nice schematic by the presenter, explicating the different ways in which users ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Corporate media, Online communication | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
More grist to the mill of those hammering home the failure of digital terrestrial radio forms, this time from a Portuguese-language article by Nair Prata in Studies in Communication:
Como acontece no Brasil, a webradio vem ganhando forc¸ a e presenc¸ a em Portugal, ao contrário do rádio digital, que apenas ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Many readers will know that my current research is focused on the ways that community radio stations are grappling with podcasting and similar technologies. I was excited, then, to see this story, about students from Utah Valley College, who travelled to Namibia to help the Katutura community radio station launch ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I had planned to blog more from GRC, but my airport card stopped working on Friday, which was somewhat of an annoyance. I was pleased that my session on podcasting was reasonably successful - we didn't get into discussing much of the more arcane aspects of adopting podcasting for community ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Digital Audio, Freedom of the press, International Affairs, Media regulation, Meta, Online communication, Personal, Political activism, Radio | 1 Comment »
