Preserving the digital record of major natural disasters: the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project
The Internet can be hugely useful to coordinate disaster relief efforts, or to help rebuild affected communities …
Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science
Small changes in individual actions can have large effects at the aggregate level; this opens up the potential for drawing incorrect conclusions about generative mechanisms when only aggregated patterns are analysed …
eHealth: what is needed at the policy level? New special issue from Policy and Internet
Policymakers wishing to promote greater choice and control among health system users should take account of the limits to empowerment as well as barriers to participation …
Young people in transition are particularly at risk of being both socially and digitally excluded
Digital inclusion cannot be addressed without tackling social exclusion, for many of those who are currently not online are also socially excluded …
Public policy responses to cybercrime: a new special issue from Policy and Internet
While ‘cybercrime’ can be used to describe a range of undesirable conduct facilitated by networked technologies, it is not a legal term of art, and many so-called cybercrimes are not necessarily crimes as far as the criminal law is concerned …
Personal data protection vs the digital economy? OII policy forum considers our digital footprints
The fact that data collection is now so routine and so extensive should make us question whether the regulatory system governing data collection, storage and use is fit for purpose …
Last 2010 issue of Policy and Internet just published (2,4)
We are pleased to present seven articles, all of which focus on a substantive public policy issue arising from widespread use of the Internet …
New issue of Policy and Internet (2,3)
We are pleased to present five articles focusing on substantive public policy issues arising from widespread use of the Internet …
Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Political Participation and Petitioning
ePetitions are an interesting research object because not only is petitioning a rather popular political participation activity offline but also online …
