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Five reasons ‘technological solutions’ are a distraction from the Irish border problem
Discussing the focus on ‘technological solutions’ in the context of the Irish border debate.
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Can “We the People” really help draft a national constitution? (sort of..)
There is a clear trend of greater public participation in the process of constitution making,…
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Bursting the bubbles of the Arab Spring: the brokers who bridge ideology on Twitter
Scholarly interest in online activism has grown with its use. Do social media really challenge…
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Call for Papers: Government, Industry, Civil Society Responses to Online Extremism
Mapping and evaluating emerging public-private partnerships, technologies, and responses to online extremism.
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In a world of “connective action” — what makes an influential Twitter user?
The new level of connectivity (particularly of social media) raises important questions about its role…
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How can we encourage participation in online political deliberation?
The Internet seems to provide an obvious opportunity to strengthen intra-party democracy and mobilise passive…
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Making crowdsourcing work as a space for democratic deliberation
Is crowdsourcing conducive to deliberation among citizens or is it essentially just a consulting mechanism…
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Habermas by design: designing public deliberation into online platforms
What particular platform features should we look to, to promote deliberative debate online?
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Human Rights and Internet Technology: Six Considerations
– in EthicsThe United Nations Human Rights Council has reaffirmed many times that “the same rights that…
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Could Counterfactuals Explain Algorithmic Decisions Without Opening the Black Box?
– in EthicsExploring the role of algorithms in our everyday lives, and how a “right to explanation”…
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A distributed resilience among darknet markets?
– in EconomicsThe actions by law enforcement were deliberately structured to seed distrust in illicit trading platforms.…
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Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet
The US accounts for almost 40% of global darknet trade, with Canada and Australia at…