Interesting promotion of ‘citizen journalism’ by Swedish police –the self-imposed Big Brother. “Sweden unrest: Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riots – Europe – World – The Independent” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-unrest-stockholm-police-ask-for-reinforcements-to-quell-ongoing-riots-8631688.html
Manuel Castells is the author of a large number of books, particularly on social networks, and he is the author of Networks of Outage and Hope — Social Movements in the Internet Age, where he delves into the dynamics of the social movements that have emerged in 2011. While of course devoting some chapters to the…
True. The one-sided nature of reporting is disturbing. The majority of the people anywhere in the world, watch the 20-minute news hour or read the free newspapers in the morning/evening on their way to/from work. But this same majority also has a decisive vote in the elections, deciding in the future of our governments. Balanced…
I am currently reading Daniel Kahneman’s great book Thinking, Fast and Slow, where he sheds light on the many different forms of cognitive misconceptions that humans make on a daily basis. Even though there are many striking observations and results from experiments about human behaviour and cognition, the following is particularly interesting to me, found on…
This is a revision of an online article I wrote in 2011, published on turkishweekly.net. The Independent correspondent Patrick Cockburn wrote a remarkable article on November 5, 2011 about a young Libyan man who guided Mr Cockburn through Tripoli, and acted as his translator. He was killed October 9 as he had joined the rebel…
Thinking politics 