Capitalism and Control: An Examination of Capitalist Trends against Consumers

This article will be covering a number of debates over years. A number of studies have been done on the nature of privacy and its place in the modern world as we move forward in the digital age. One study called The Privacy-Innovation Conundrum by Ted Zarsky argues for the existence of a tradeoff that policy makers have to make between favoring innovation and hurting privacy or favoring privacy, but reducing the incentive to create new ideas[1]. This argument makes a great deal of sense if we view information as not dissimilar to money. However, it leaves open interpretation for how policy makers are to proceed. There is also the discussion of how Net Neutrality should be approached from an economics perspective. On one side of the debate, researchers argue that the market for broadband internet is in fact a two-sided market, and thus regulating the market would be inefficient to the goal of society. The other side argues that the internet bears resemblance to the electric grid as a utility application, thus not regulating broadband internet would cause inefficiencies in the innovation space of the internet. Another debate that this article will cover is the nature of exploitation that companies like Facebook and Google engage. One side of the debate argues that Facebook is company that explicitly exploits all the information that is provided to the consumers without appropriate compensation while the other argues that the service of Facebook and Google as information aggregates serve as good compensation

Children, family and the state : revisiting public and private realms

The state is often viewed as part of the impersonal public sphere in opposition to the private family as a locus of warmth and intimacy. In recent years this modernist dichotomy has been challenged by theoretical and institutional trends which have altered the relationship between state and family. This paper explores changes to both elements of the dichotomy that challenge this relationship: a more fragmented family structure and more individualised and networked support for children. It will also examine two new elements that further disrupt any clear mapping between state/family and public/private dichotomies: the third party role of the child in family/state affairs and children's application of virtual technology that locates the private within new cultural and social spaces. The paper concludes by examining the rise of the 'individual child' hitherto hidden within the family/state dichotomy and the implications this has for intergenerational relations at personal and institutional levels

Team to Market (T2M): Creating High Performance Teams in the Digital Age

1. Teams are the essential means of product or service delivery and the fundamental building blocks of modern organisations. An effective team can produce results far outperforming a collection of even the most talented individuals when team members coalesce and jell into a single, well-functioning, fully-aligned organism. This report advances the notion of “Team to Market” (T2M) to help business leaders and knowledge workers understand, create and lead high performance teams in the digital age

Checkmate: How Sexual Predators in (Your)Space Have Strategically Employed Existing Cyber-Laws to Outflank Their Prey

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Social Network Leverage Search

Social networks are at an all time high, nowadays. They make the world a smaller place to live in. People can stay in touch with friends and can make new friends on these social networks which traditionally were not possible without internet service. The possibilities provided by social networks enable vast and immediate contact. People tend to spend lot of time on the social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter peeping into their friend‟s accounts and trying to stay connected with the world.However, recently people have started closing their accounts on these famous social networks after having been irritated with the large amount of data that floods these networks. Although there are many problems associated with these social networks like: privacy issues, identity fraud, information overload, etc.; the problem that bothers people the most is that of information overload.This project provides a solution to the information overload problem by filtering all the user‟s friend‟s posts on the basis of user‟s likes without explicitly asking the user to specify their likes. The project analyzes the user\u27s posts to find out their likes, and then returns the filtered posts to them from their friends on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.Thus, this project attempts to remove noise from the huge amount of data on these social networks

Your Smart Phones Are Hot Pockets to Us: Context Collapse in a Mobilized Age

A key guarantor of social trust and a necessary feature of democratic societies is a stable sense of social distance. Social distance is the cultural imaginary within which an individual’s coordinates of social status and contingent social location allow or inhibit contact with similarly and dissimilarly located others. The rearrangement of customary social distances by new communication technologies is a source of considerable social anxiety. In mobile communication, this context collapse is instigated by a distinctive combination of affordances: deep connectivity, the accelerated speed and volume of communicative exchange, enhanced social legibility and asymmetric communicative transparency. Robust and effective levels of social trust depend on a political will to build strong democratic accountability and civil rights guarantees into emerging mobile architectures. Identifying specific recalibrations of familiar social distances by regimes of mobile communication and assessing the effects of these recalibrations in democratic terms is a central task of mobile research