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Online crowd-sourcing of scientific data could document the worldwide loss of glaciers to climate change
The platform aims to create long-lasting scientific value with minimal technical entry barriers—it is valuable…
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Crowdsourcing translation during crisis situations: are ‘real voices’ being excluded from the decisions and policies it supports?
If you have ever worried about media bias then you should really worry about the…
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Time for debate about the societal impact of the Internet of Things
As the cost and size of devices falls and network access becomes ubiquitous, it is…
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Why do (some) political protest mobilisations succeed?
Mobilisation paths are difficult to predict because they depend on the right alignment of conditions…
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Online collective action and policy change: shifting contentious politics in policy processes
The Internet can facilitate the involvement of social movements in policymaking processes, but also constitute…
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Online collective action and policy change: new special issue from Policy and Internet
The internet has provided citizens with a greater capacity for coordination and mobilisation, which can…
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Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?
While many people continued to contribute conventional humanitarian information to the map, the sudden shift…
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Experiments are the most exciting thing on the UK public policy horizon
Very few of these experiments use manipulation of information environments on the internet as a…
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Uncovering the structure of online child exploitation networks
Despite large investments of law enforcement resources, online child exploitation is nowhere near under control,…
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Papers on Policy, Activism, Government and Representation: New Issue of Policy and Internet
Investigating the relationship between Internet-based applications and data and the policy process.
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UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’
The researchers’ interviews with teenagers reveal that they felt shut out of their peer group…
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Searching for a “Plan B”: young adults’ strategies for finding information about emergency contraception online
While the Internet is a valuable source of information about sexual health for young adults,…