Category Archives for Networked Politics
Monica Mæland facts – more political sarcasm in social media
National elections in Norway are this September, and clearly there’s going to be more playful use of social media this time around. The latest I’ve seen is a Twitter account spitting out “facts” about Monica Mæland, a conservative politician who … Continue reading
Hey girl Audun Lysbakken
Today I’m loving these Hey Girl Audun Lysbakken photos – Lysbakken heads the socialist party (SV) and I suppose he is rather good looking. Someone has started a series of photos of him based on the Ryan Gosling memes, or … Continue reading
We need to teach our kids to code!
I wrote an op-ed for Aftenposten today about the need to teach our kids programming. Working on the government report on hindrances for digital innovation in Norway I read a lot about how we currently define “digital competency” and “digital … Continue reading
How to be an open access scholar
After writing a blog post about open access, Bente Kalsnes asked today for practical suggestions on how to be an Open Access researcher. Here’s how: Publish in open access journals. If you’re in Norway, you’ll also want to search DBH’s list … Continue reading
#PDFtribute, Aaron Swartz, and the need to fight for open access in academic publishing
Three days ago, internet activist Aaron Swartz killed himself, as has been reported widely across social and traditional media. He killed himself on the second anniversary of being arrested for having downloaded thousands of academic articles from JSTOR via a … Continue reading
What are the main hindrances for innovation in Norwegian digital content and sercvices?
For just over a year, I’ve been going to Oslo once a month to discuss hindrances for innovation and growth in digital content and services in Norway with an incredibly inspiring group of people: lawyers, consumer rights’ advocates, programmers, a … Continue reading
Do we WANT to be able to predict an election result?
So what does it do to democracy if we can predict the results of an election with 100% accuracy? Nate Silver’s predictions at the NY Times’ Fivethirtyeight.com election poll blog correctly called the results of 50 out of 50 states in this … Continue reading
Wikipedia edits visualised by gender and location
The Association of Internet Researchers has an amazingly useful mailing list where scholars discuss topics and often compile wonderful lists of resources and papers on particular topics. The archives are online, and subscription is free. Currently there’s a discussion of … Continue reading
Sex, ekstremisme og mediesirkus
“[This is about a local extremist anti-feminist blogger who was recently jailed for threatening to murder police officers. I’ve been invited to participate in a radio debate on the media coverage this afternoon, so in the following I try to … Continue reading
Orality is power; social media let us be controlled?
Computers make more and more aspects of work into data that can be collected and monitored, according to Shoshana Zuboff’s In the Age of the Smart Machine (1984), writes Rob Horning in The New Inquiry, and he takes her argument forwards into the age … Continue reading