My brilliant new phone has just revealed to me two albums of pictures which I made in 2010 on my camera. From these two albums I had uploaded — via another person’s computer using a programme called iPhoto — only a few to Facebook. Nevertheless, both albums are on my phone (not an iPhone) in their…
Evgeny Morozov makes an interesting claim in his book The Net Delusion. Chapter three, entitled Orwell’s Favorite Lolcat, starts by making the point that in the DDR (communist East Germany) in the 1980s those (the large majority apparently) who were able to receive the television broadcasts from the FDR (democratic West Germany), were in fact…
I started reading Evgeny Morozov’s book “The Net Delusion” (though my version has an ugly cat on the front cover) yesterday. The first chapter starts off with Iran ‘Twitter Revolution’ in 2009, where Morozov criticises this notion on the grounds that in fact in Iran 1. Ahmadinejad got elected, rendering all the positive news about…
I have been reading a couple of articles from Evgeny Morozov, and I listened to him on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post and (Dutch) VPRO’s Tegenlicht. And he strikes me as interesting due to his very critical standing on the notion that the Internet can solve all our problems. More interestingly, he also is sceptical of the role…
