Bourgeois Anarchism and Authoritarian Democracies
First Monday researcher Felix Stalder argues that social networks have spawned two conflicting phenomena that threaten to ignite a global battle over civil liberties: an expanding number of loosely organized, informal online groups in pursuit of social change, on one hand; and a heightened regime of covert surveillance by democratic governments around the world, on the other.
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media file is a repository of links to articles and research reports that shed light on the intersection between open media and global tribes, two phenomena that together are giving birth to a new kind of business: "social enterprise 2.0."
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more media file links for July 9, 2008:
AOL offers services in 4 Latin American countries
Reuters reports that AOL has expanded its reach into Argentina, Chile, Columbia, and Venezuela, bringing to 25 the number of countries in which it currently operates.
Publicis Forms “Open Source” Ad Network
paidContent reports that French agency Publicis Groupe has formed an internal online ad network comprised of its four major global media partners--AOL, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft--with the goal of closely coordinating its campaigns across these platforms.
France To Tax Mobile, Internet And TV Revenues To Fund Public Broadcaster
paidContent reports that in 2009, France will begin taxing commercial Internet, mobile, and broadcast services, with revenues to go to the country's publicly supported media.
First English-Language Sunday Newspaper Launched in China
WARC reports on the launch of China's first English-language Sunday newspaper, to be published in Shanghai, that country's largest city, with a population of over 20 million.
The Wall Street Journalist
BusinessWeek reports on the WSJ's managing editor Robert Thomson and his ambitious strategy to turn the brand into a global online media power. A key element of strategy: micropayments.
Pew Research Center: Assessing Globalization
In this article for the Harvard International Review, Pew's Andrew Kohut reports that average citizens around the world embrace the concept of globalization, although it has greater currency in poorer nations versus wealthier ones.
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