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Published in: HomeMulticulturalism and social cohesion
The nuts and bolts of a Big Society require a conspiracy of effects at every level, local, national and...
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Published in: HomeThe Internet is still changing everything. Now, the rendez-vous with ourselves
The Club de Madrid convenes its annual conference this week, which this year is themed on Internet and Democracy....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo deadlines: Occupy London activists won't be co-opted
The City of London Corporation has dropped its threat to evict 'tent city' at St Paul's Cathedral. Negotiations are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChurch, city, media: how the message of #OccupyLondon is being disrupted
OccupyLondon's encampment is facing eviction from outside St Paul's cathedral. The Church of England and City of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKE-Petition for an English Parliament: Why you should sign it
Independence for England is supported by over 35% of English residents, yet politicians doggedly avoid the 'English...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian state and surveillance technology
The Russian blogosphere has burgeoned into a open-door sanctuary for all strands of political opinion. Predictably,...
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Published in: HomeIntellectuals against the public sphere: how to do debate better than Evgeny Morozov's tear-down
Evgeny Morozov, an engaging thinker whom we have enjoyed publishing on openDemocracy, produced an intemperate review...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRadical media, stop fighting the mainstream - instead, let's build the future
Radical media are wasting too much energy competing with the mainstream. They should return to their great strength:...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReproduction of movement(s) without organisation: #UKUncut, #OWS, #OccupyMovement
A global day of collective action in 82 countries shook the world on October 15, 2011. Yet the protests were not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK#OccupyLondon: not the beginning or the end, but a momentous opportunity
The first weekend of the London occupation felt victorious, as the protesters established their own democracy and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Revolution Will Be Digitised: dispatches from the information war
Heather Brooke uncovered the MPs expenses scandal and played a key role in the Wikileaks project. Her new book...
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Published in: 50.50Unruly politics: atomised movements, activist individuals and clientilism
Do new social media create new forms of citizen action? Jenny Morgan reports on a knowledge exchange conference in the Hague
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Published in: openEconomyJoining up the dots: Steve Jobs, Slavoj Žižek and "good capitalism"
Watch the moving and inspirational commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in 2005. From the story of...
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Published in: HomeMurdoch and Berlusconi: the fall of two media empires and the network multitudes
The simultaneous fall of the Murdoch and Berlusconi media empires – symbolic of an epoch – is not a coincidence but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnatomy of a Networked Riot: rapid violence, rapid response
Social networking has come under fire since England's week of riots and looting. But the same tools that facilitated...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Localism Bill: towards democracy or small-state Conservatism?
The Localism Bill's stated aim is to shift power from Westminster into the hands of local people. But will it...
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Published in: HomeThe net of hatred: after Utøya
The public debate in Norway following the massacre of 22 July 2011 is taking shape. A key focus is the obsessional...
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Published in: HomePR.ocess or PR.opaganda: a battle for the truth
The multi-billion dollar industry of Public Relations (PR) is divided between those who use it for genuine...
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Published in: HomeNetworked activism meets the dominant culture of technocratic managerialism in Westminster
The first full-time executive director of the Open Rights Group (and one-time openDemocracy technology director)...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe far right are the masters of network politics, not the 'internationalist' left
While the left presume they are the internationalists, it is the far right who have mastered network politics, by...