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RSA Animate – The Power of Networks
In this RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world.
Digital media and urban spaces
Barbara Anderson FRSA argues that we all share a responsibility to shape how technologies shape our lives
Should we ban twitter or praise it?
Thomas Neumark argues the focus should be on understanding the power social networks themselves.
Attention! Putting the form in information
Jonathan Rowson shares his thoughts on James Gleick’s talk about information and its role in communication
RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen?
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter revolution’ fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.
WikiLeaks and the media
The internet is a facilitator of anarchy and rebellion and must be preserved as such, argues Nick Brace FRSA.
Back to the drawing board
Creative entrepreneurs need access to learning opportunities to embrace the latest technology, suggests Jane Gosney FRSA
Jaron Lanier: admirable apostate of the digital revolution
The virtual reality pioneer turned digital dissenter has delivered one of the first analyses of digital culture worth criticising, suggests Nico Macdonald
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