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Popular education and the digital citizen: a genealogical analysis
This paper historicises and problematises the concept of the digital citizen and how it is constructed in Sweden today. Specifically, it examines the role of popular education in such an entanglement. It makes use of a genealogical analysis to produce a critical âhistory of the presentâ by mapping out the debates and controversies around the emergence of the digital citizen in the 1970s and 1980s, and following to its manifestations in contemporary debates. This article argues that free and voluntary adult education (popular education) is and has been fundamental in efforts to construe the digital citizen. A central argument of the paper is that popular education aiming for digital inclusion is not a 21st century phenomenon; it actually commenced in the 1970s. However, this digitisation of citizens has also changed focus dramatically since the 1970s. During the 1970s, computers and computerisation were described as disconcerting, and as requiring popular education in order to counter the risk of the technology ârunning wildâ. In current discourses, digitalisation is constructed in a non-ideological and post-political way. These post-political tendencies of today can be referred to as a post-digital present where computers have become so ordinary, domesticized and ubiquitous in everyday life that they are thereby also beyond criticism. (DIPF/Orig.
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Forums for citizen journalists? Adoption of user generated content initiatives by online news media
The mainstream online news media face accusations of being slow to respond to so-called 'grassroots' or 'citizen journalism', which uses the world wide web, and in particular blogs and wikis, to publish and promote independent news-related content. This article argues that the adaptation of established news websites to the increasing demand from readers for space to express their views is driven as much by local organizational and technical conditions as it is by any attachment to traditional editorial practices. The article uses qualitative research interviews with the editors and managing editors of nine major British news websites to reveal the debates journalists are having about their changing roles, the challenges of meeting commercial expectations and legal obligations, and the innovations taking place in online newsrooms. It provides journalism and interactive media scholars with case studies on the changes taking place in journalism's relationship with its consumers
Framing the cuts: an analysis of the BBCâs discursive framing of the ConDem cuts agenda
This study analyses the discursive framing of the British governmentâs economic policies
by BBC News Online. Specifically, it focuses on the coverage of the governmentâs
Comprehensive Spending Review in 2010, in which the details of the Chancellor of the
Exchequerâs broader âausterityâ agenda were released. Using frame analysis informed
by critical theory, we analyse three online BBC features and compare their framing of
the economic crisis â and the range of possible policy responses to it â with that of the
governmentâs.
In addition, we analyse editorial blogs and training materials associated with the
BBCâs special âSpending Review seasonâ; we also situate the analysis in the historical
context of the BBCâs relationship with previous governments at moments of political
and economic crisis.
Contrary to dominant ideas that the BBC is biased to the left, our findings suggest that
its economic journalism discursively normalises neoliberal economics, not necessarily as
desirable, but certainly as inevitable
ANTICORRUPTION NATIONAL SYSTEM: Model Whistleblowers direct citizen action against corruption in Mexico
The phenomenon of corruption is a cancer that affects our country and that it is
necessary to eradicate; This dilutes the opportunities for economic and social
development, privileging the single conjunction of particular interests, political actors in non-legal agreements for their own benefit, which lead to acts of corruption. Recent
studies indicate that the level of corruption present in a political system is directly
related to the type of institutional structure that defines it (Boehm and Lambsdorff,
2009), as well as the ineffectiveness of the control organisms (Casar, 2015; CĂĄrdenas,
2010, Rojas, 2010, Carbonell, 2009, Restrepo, 2004), which requires citizen action to
combat corruption (Sandoval, 2010, Villanueva, 2006). This work, focuses our attention
on the federal public administration, presenting as a proposal to empower the citizen
action in the fight against corruption and in the National Anticorruption System; the
figure of Whistleblowers or generator of citizen alert, based on two fundamental
principles: i) recognizing the citizen's obligation to report acts of corruption and ii) the
granting by the authority of witness protection. These two actions will result in two
important results: i) Consolidate the citizen's complaint to inform society about acts of
corruption and ii) and the exercise of freedom of information so that society is able to be informed about acts of corruption. These actions will allow promoting and
consolidating a culture of reporting acts of corruption that may constitute a crime as a
fundamental pillar in the National Anticorruption System in Mexico
Proceedings of the 2011 New York Workshop on Computer, Earth and Space Science
The purpose of the New York Workshop on Computer, Earth and Space Sciences is
to bring together the New York area's finest Astronomers, Statisticians,
Computer Scientists, Space and Earth Scientists to explore potential synergies
between their respective fields. The 2011 edition (CESS2011) was a great
success, and we would like to thank all of the presenters and participants for
attending. This year was also special as it included authors from the upcoming
book titled "Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy". Over
two days, the latest advanced techniques used to analyze the vast amounts of
information now available for the understanding of our universe and our planet
were presented. These proceedings attempt to provide a small window into what
the current state of research is in this vast interdisciplinary field and we'd
like to thank the speakers who spent the time to contribute to this volume.Comment: Author lists modified. 82 pages. Workshop Proceedings from CESS 2011
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Ethics of e-voting: an essay on requirements and values in Internet elections
In this paper, we investigate ethical issues involved in the development and implementation of
Internet voting technology. From a phenomenological perspective, we describe how voting via the
Internet mediates the relation between people and democracy. In this relation, trust plays a major
role. The dynamics of trust in the relation between people and their world forms the basis for our
analysis of the ethical issues involved. First, we consider established principles of voting,
confirming the identity of our democracy, which function as expectations in current experiments
with online voting in the Netherlands. We investigate whether and how Internet voting can meet
these expectations and thereby earn trust, based on the experiments in the Netherlands. We identify
major challenges, and provide a basis for ethical and political discussion on these issues, especially
the changed relation between public and private. If we decide that we want to vote via the Internet,
more practical matters come into play in the implementation of the technology. The choices
involved here are discussed in relation to the mediating role of concrete voting technologies in the
relation between citizen and state
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