The Mexican Surveillance State
2014 AnOx alumnus José Antonio Brambila discusses the potential consequences of a new piece of Mexican surveillance legislation.
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The GovLab Selected Curation of Articles on Net-Governance: Issue 59
The Selected Curation of Articles on Net-governance (the SCAN) is a weekly digest on internet governance news, reports, and events produced by the Governance Lab @NYU (the GovLab) as part of the GovLab’s Living Labs on Smarter Governance project. The SCAN is cross-posted weekly from the GovLab on the Internet Policy Observatory. The original posting of the GovLab SCAN- Issue 59, December 4, 2014 can be found here.
Video: From Leaflets to Live Stream: Protest Movements and their Media Practices
Dr. Anne Kaun‘s lunchtime talk discussed the history of how-often banal-media technologies as means of communication have been employed by protest movements that emerged in the context of major economic crises in order to promote radical social change.
Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries
This new report in the UNESCO Internet freedom series focuses on the rise of internet intermediaries that play a mediating role on the internet between authors of content and audience. This UNESCO project was completed as a joint initiative with the Open Society Foundations, the Internet Society, and Center for Global Communication Studies. The original post can be found here.
WHO IS ICT INNOVATION FOR? CHALLENGES TO EXISTING THEORIES OF INNOVATION, A KENYAN CASE STUDY
Eleanor Marchant, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, introduces her new report which challenges existing Western theories of innovation using Kenya as a case study. This report is part of CGCS’s ICTs, Statebuilding, & Preacebuilding in Eastern Africa Project. For the full report, please click here.