Category «Internet»

Report: – Countering Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR): Countering Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action “Political extremists and terrorists are increasingly using the internet as an instrument for radicalisation and recruitment. What can be done to counter their activities? Countering Online Radicalisation examines the different technical options for making ‘radical’ internet content …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Report release: 2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools

2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools, March 2009 by Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, and John Palfrey “As the Internet has exploded over the past fifteen years, recently reaching over a billion users, dozens of national governments have tried to control the network by filtering out content objectionable to the countries for any of …

Subjects: Censorship, Internet

Pew Research Center: Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus

Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus – Online Growth, but Print Losses are Bigger, February 26, 2009: “The trend is unmistakable: Fewer Americans are reading print newspapers as more turn to the internet for their news. And while the percentage of people who read newspapers online is growing rapidly, especially among younger generations, that growth has …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating

“In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet

Harvard Prof. on Google and the Future of Books

Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book search project, from the New York Review of Books, Google & the Future of Books, by Robert Darnton “How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between …

Subjects: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Pew Survey: Generations Online in 2009

News release: “Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online, according to surveys taken from 2006-2008. Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the “Net Generation,” internet users …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Mail, Internet

Data Privacy Day 2009

Intel: “On January 28, 2009, the United States, Canada, and 27 European countries will celebrate Data Privacy Day together for the second time. Designed to raise awareness and generate discussion about data privacy practices and rights, Data Privacy Day activities in the United States have included privacy professionals, corporations, government officials, and representatives, academics, and …

Subjects: E-Mail, Internet, Privacy