March 2011
7 posts
RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering...
Excellent way to spend 11 minutes. Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy?
In the following RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics. Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter...
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Casey Heynes. The Powerslam. The viral. The meme....
Yesterday, a video started circulating around the web showing Casey Heynes, a 16 year old school kid from Chifley College, Australia, getting picked on one time too many by a little scrote called Richard Gale.
In the video, Gale, starts a fight with Casey, punching him in the face whilst his friends look on laughing and filming the whole thing on their mobile phones. Gale knew this wasn’t the...
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