Category: Interviews
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Internet Filtering: And Why It Doesn’t Really Help Protect Teens
– in InterviewsStriking the right balance between protecting adolescents and respecting their rights to freedom of expression…
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Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger
While the UK government has financed technological infrastructure and invested in schemes to address digital…
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Exploring the world of digital detoxing
Advocates of “digital detoxing” view digital communication as eroding our ability to concentrate, to empathise,…
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Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use—But Why?
Britain has one of the largest Internet economies in the developed world, and the Internet…
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Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?
Discussing the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland and analysing…
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How do the mass media affect levels of trust in government?
Challenging the conventional wisdom that suggests greater exposure to mass media outlets will result in…
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Does a market-approach to online privacy protection result in better protection for users?
Examining the voluntary provision by commercial sites of information privacy protection and control under the…
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The social economies of networked cultural production (or, how to make a movie with complete strangers)
Looking at “networked cultural production”—ie the creation of cultural goods like films through crowdsourcing platforms—specifically…
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The economic expectations and potentials of broadband Internet in East Africa
Were firms adopting internet, as it became cheaper? Had this new connectivity had the effects…
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The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery
One central concern of those governments that are leading in the public sector’s migration to…
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Exploring variation in parental concerns about online safety issues
Parents have different and often conflicting views about what’s best for their children. What’s helpful…
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Harnessing ‘generative friction’: can conflict actually improve quality in open systems?
The more that differing points of view and differing evaluative frames came into contact, the…