Big data problems we face today can be traced to the social ordering practices of the 19th century.

In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and analysis of that information. Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia trace the connections between the 19th century data revolution and the present day one, outlining the implications this may have for the politics of big data in contemporary society. Two centuries after the first big data revolution, many of the problems and their solutions persist down to the present era

When Data Comes Home: Next Steps in International Taxation’s Information Revolution

Over the last decade, there has been a revolution in cross-border tax information exchange and reporting. While this dramatic shift was the product of multiple forces and events, a fundamental reality is that politics, technology, and law intersected to drive the shift to the point where nation-states will now transmit and receive from each other significant ongoing flows of taxpayer information. States can now expect to accumulate large stashes of data on cross-border income, assets, and activities on a scale and level of comprehensiveness unmatched by previous information exchange regimes. This article examines the pressing follow-up question of how this data will be used and what issues nation-states will confront when data comes home. Although concerns about data protection and use have been raised in critiquing the new cross-border information exchange regimes, a systematic examination of how governments might use or fail to use data and when those uses will pose unacceptable risks has yet to be undertaken. This article analyzes how the forces that drove the revolution—politics, technology, and law—are likely to interact and affect tax enforcement and data usage at the nation-state level going forward. We argue that despite the dominant focus on global developments, structures, and capacities, domestic politics and technological constraints will likely play an equally if not more significant role in data use and protection as countries receive data and decide what to do with it. The mere fact that collective political will on a global level produced the information revolution does not prevent domestic political forces from either derailing the revolution in practice or from redirecting data to other uses. We map the potential risks, examine the extent to which domestic legal regimes will have the capacity or inclination to protect taxpayer privacy and constrain distributional outcomes in a politics-driven world of ubiquitously available data, and predict the likely outcomes, responses and solutions

Политическая коммуникация в современной информационной эпохе

The article is devoted to the theme of transformation of political communication and its features at current information society. The author is considering how last wave of information revolution changed social life, communication processes and relations in the sphere of politics: due to the Internet as a global information and communication system, the power of the elites and the media is redistribute to new actors, new players are appear on the world stage, that have an impact on both the regional and international political processes.Статья посвящена теме трансформации политической коммуникации и ее особенностям в современном информационном обществе. Автор рассматривает, как последняя волна информационной революции изменила общественную жизнь, процессы коммуникации и отношения в сфере политики: благодаря интернету – глобальной информационно-коммуникационной системе, власть от элит и СМИ перераспределяется сегодня к новым акторам, на мировой арене появляются игроки, оказывающие влияние как на региональные, так и на международные политические процессы

La evolución de los fundamentos de los sistemas económicos y de la denominada “Economía Social”. La participación en democracia en la economía: la regla de comportamiento de la sociedad de la información

The information revolution and the destruction of the environment are leading to changes in society, economy and politics which can be included in the overall concept of globalization. This article analyses the influence of the two factors which are changing our civilisation in a specific area: the principles of the conventional economic systems in the Western world (capitalism and the market economy). Special emphasis will be made on the role of civil society in the solution of problems which, until recently, were the States’ concern. At any rate, the present situation is likely to change, as “the only constant is the increasing rate of change”.Globalization, change, society, economic system.

Social Justice, National Weekly

Vol. 1A, no. 7; Joseph P. Kennedy image on front page; 19 pages Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Father Charles Coughlin was a Canadian-American Catholic priest known in the 1930s and 1940s for his virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Communist tirades, employed to great effect on his radio program (Hour of Power), and in his magazine Social Justice. His confused mix of free market capitalism and socialist ideas of income guarantees and wealth redistribution, increasingly gave way to inveighing against both capitalism and communism, and aligning himself with the fascist demagogues Hitler and Mussolini. Jews, Coughlin believed, were behind the Communist revolution, Jewish financiers were secretly attempting to control world government and politics, and Jews in general exerted a corrupting influence on culture and politics. Indeed, Marxist atheism was, in Coughlin’s mind, a Jewish plot against the United States. His belief in Jewish world domination was bolstered by the discredited forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a version of which was reprinted in Social Justice. Coughlin became an isolationist along with the staunch Anti-Semites and unabashed Hitler admirers Charles Lindberg and Joseph Kennedy. America, he believed, should not intervene in a European war which was ultimately instigated by the Jews.https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/2435/thumbnail.jp

SHARP POWER AND DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE: THE NEW COGNITIVE WAR

To the new forms of conflict taking place in the world correspond, or are linked, newforms of power: from cognitive warfare to sharp power, up to what is now called surveillancecapitalism. Through cognitive conflict and sharp power strategies, we are witnessing anepochal change, an IT revolution that brings political conflict into a digital dimension, whichacts on the ground of public opinion, politics and economics; but even more subtly it acts in thecontrol and conditioning of knowledge, of our world view and of facts. The general objective,from a political philosophy and communication ethics point of view, is to understand whatchanges are taking place and the purposes of controlling information, the conditioning ofknowledge, the power of world markets and economic forces, which can be destructive asweapons of war: they can affect the strength of moral and collective resistance of a people, thereputation of a head of state, can pollute information for the failure of diplomatic operations,etc. How can one find adequate tools for cognitive response, autonomy of judgment anddecision, exercise of freedom, protection of rights, in particular those of the most fragilesocial groups who are also the most affected by the new forms of power and unconventionalconflict? The aim of my work will be to analyze forms, methods and languages of thisinterweaving of knowledge conditioning, digital market control, power (political and social),and global competitivenes

Cast Off the Yoke of Tyranny!: The Influence of the Reformation upon the Enlightenment and World Revolution

This paper explores the connection between the Protestant Reformation and the Revolutions in America and France during the eighteenth century. When the Reformation started, with it came a strong opposition to absolutism and other forms of perceived tyranny. Over time, this culminated in both the American and French Revolutions. An oft-neglected subject in the history of these events, however, is the influence of the Reformation upon Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke. Locke lived in seventeenth-century England at a time when the Geneva Bible outdid the King James Bible in popularity. The Geneva Bible contained marginal notes that promoted the deposition of tyrannical monarchs. The author begins with tracing revolutionary events since the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, including the Peasants’ Revolt and eventually the English Civil War, and finally the American and French Revolutions. Rather than show the Reformation and the Enlightenment as two distinct streams leading to the river of the Revolutions, the author shows that the Reformation, Enlightenment and the Revolutions all come from one stream, with its head at the Reformation

Radical “Citizens of the World,” 1790–95: The Early Career of Henry Redhead Yorke

This article takes a new look at British radicalism in the 1790s and explores it within broad geographical and cultural frameworks and through the early career of Henry Redhead Yorke, a West Indian Creole who became a radical in England but frequently recanted his politics. It views radicalism within the Atlantic World and provides a broader interpretation of the excluded majority than as an English working class. It examines the radical “citizens of the world” and sheds new light on the apparent conflict within English radicalism between universalist and constitutionalist ideologies. Politicization and identity are the key themes here examined within micro- and macro-histories

Banal revolution: the emptying of a political signifier

If you type in the word ‘revolution’ in the Google search engine the top result that comes up is a chain of bars called Revolution. Other results on the first page of the search engine include a commercial radio station, clothing, a skate park and a software company. A Wikipedia page and the website of the Revolutionary Socialist Youth are the only non-commercial results Google provides us on its first page. This says as much about the business model of Google than it does about the changes at the level of meanings attributed to revolution. Revolution, it will be argued here, is a political signifier emptied of its radical connotations and currently used graciously as a brand or as a buzzword to mean change in whatever direction. As a result, revolution has been firmly incorporated into the neoliberal discourse and value system..

Art+Politics

For the exhibition Art + Politics, students worked closely with the holdings of Gettysburg College\u27s Special Collections and College Archives to curate an exhibition in Schmucker Art Gallery that engages with issues of public policy, activism, war, propaganda, and other critical socio-political themes. Each of the students worked diligently to contextualize the objects historically, politically, and art-historically. The art and artifacts presented in this exhibition reveal how various political events and social issues have been interpreted through various visual and printed materials, including posters, pins, illustrations, song sheets, as well as a Chinese shoe for bound feet. The students\u27 essays that follow demonstrate careful research and thoughtful reflection on the American Civil War, nineteenth-century politics, the First and Second World Wars, World\u27s Fairs, Dwight D. Eisenhower\u27s campaign, Vietnam-War era protests, and the Cultural Revolution in China. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1009/thumbnail.jp