Tag: communication
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The Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, is currently preparing a report on the legal framework governing the relationship between freedom of expression and the use of encryption to secure transactions and communications, and other technologies to transact and communicate anonymously online. This…
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Three aspects of scholarship appear to be most important: First, policymakers appear to want mid-range theory. Policymakers do not reject methodologically sophisticated scholarship across the board but do seem to find much of it not useful. They prefer that scholars generate simple and straightforward frameworks that help them make sense of a complex world. They…
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We suspect that the reason that Op/Eds are so influential among policymakers is only partly due to where they are published; another important aspect of their influence is their short length. We are by no means suggesting that scholars only write in that format, but we strongly believe that research findings that cannot be presented…
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“For now, here is an animated history of scientific communication, intended to demonstrate scientists’ need for new search tools, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information in 1967. (The Institute would later become famous following its invention of the Journal Impact Factor in the 1970s.)” Alex Csiszar – Machineries of Search (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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The Rise of the Working-Class Network Society…
I had a fantastic and energising talk with my old Panos London colleague Murali Shanmugavelan just now, during which he urged me to read Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Here are some extracts of that book, via Google. Just skimming the first few pages,…
Sameer Padania 