(This post originally appeared as “Let’s Build Democracy Robots” on Slate. Read Jillian York’s great retort “No We Should Not Build Pro-Democracy Twitter Bots“) Most Twitter users try to ignore messages from robot accounts. But maybe we should be putting bots to work for a more noble cause—democracy. One estimate [...]
My book The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy now available as a Creative Commons release from Oxford University Press. Oxford has provided a publication quality PDF for download.
Quoted in USAToday
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(This post originally appeared as “How Obama’s Foreign Policy Can Be Savvier about Tech and Democratization” on TechPresident.) The last four years have seen demonstrated dividends for democracy from investments made by the Obama administration. Forging a new foreign policy approach that fosters openness for governments and technology support for [...]
This is the Prezi show for my latest talk called “The Media Cold War”. I have presented this at Princeton and the Central European University. It requires Flash, and may take a moment to fully load. If it doesn’t load in your browser, you can go directly to the Prezi [...]
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