The new issue of the Journal of Science Communication, an online and open access journal devoted to the relationship between science and the media, contains a collection of short articles on genomics entitled Know your genes. The marketing of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Edited by Alessandro Delfanti, this collection includes papers by scholars such as Jenny… Continue reading
Date archives "September 2011"
On the necessity to internalize costs in a true cost economy
An excerpt from chapter 10 of Sacred Economics: Charles Eistenstein: “Externalized costs are costs of production that someone else pays. For example, one reason vegetables from California’s Central Valley are cheaper to buy in Pennsylvania than local produce is that they don’t reflect their full cost. Since producers are not liable to pay the current… Continue reading
Hilary Wainwright maps the new structures of feeling
Strategies for change should pay attention not only to overt resistance or refusal, not simply to fully articulated opposing values, but also to feelings of unease arising from the tension between official discourse and practical experience. Here can be alternative values and institutions in formation. Excerpted from Hilary Wainwright in Red Pepper. I strongly recommend… Continue reading
Children as Digital Brokers
Michel Bauwens is participating in the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference, held at Aalto University in Helsinki from 27 to 30 September 2011. The following is part of a selection of blogposts used to prepare the conference. By Ioana Literat: “A few weeks ago, on the bus to campus, I witnessed a little… Continue reading
Farmer to Farmer: The Truth About Gm Crops
Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer from the UK, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, travelling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA. He has produced a video documentary of an investigation into the reality of farming… Continue reading
The Geopolitics of the Open Government Partnership: the beginning of Open vs. Closed
An interesting take by David Eaves on the launching of the Open Government Partnership. Read the whole post and comments here Aside from one or two notable exceptions, there hasn’t been a ton of press about the Open Government Partnership (OGP). This is hardly surprising. The press likes to talk about corruption and bad government, people getting together to… Continue reading
Why do it yourself is also green
Sami Grover responds to the critique that the future won’t be handmade, by pointing out the benefits of knowledge that derive from individual or collective self-production: “Alex Steffen once declared that the revolution will not be handmade—but I’m thinking some of the equipment used in it may very well be. Now I am, by far,… Continue reading
The Characteristics of Participatory Learning
Michel Bauwens is participating in the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference, held at Aalto University in Helsinki from 27 to 30 September 2011. The following is part of a selection of blogposts used to prepare the conference. By Ioana Literat: Here at Project New Media Literacies at USC Annenberg, we’ve spent a significant… Continue reading
A call to support OccupyWallStreet
The first item is republished from Arun Gupta, editor of The Indypendent. The second item is a joint statement by both progressive and libertarian spokespeople on the areas of agreement for a common struggle. 1. Arun Gupta: “What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. For over 10 days, in the sanctum… Continue reading
What the victory of the German Pirates means for the rest of the world
Excerpted from Glyn Moody: “Obviously, even with their 15 seats, the German Pirate Party stands little hope of bringing these ideas to fruition. But it can still achieve a great deal, as Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the first Pirate Party, points out: When Green Parties entered parliaments, the oil industry lobby became ineffective overnight…. Continue reading
Douglas Rushkoff – Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy
Douglas Rushkoff – Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy is a talk from Hello Etsy in Berlin, given and recorded on September 18, 2011.
A manifesto for participatory learning
Michel Bauwens is participating in the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference, held at Aalto University in Helsinki from 27 to 30 September 2011. The following is part of a selection of blogposts used to prepare the conference. By Ioana Literat: As we are approaching the commencement of the conference, and as my blogging… Continue reading
“Painfully frank trader” says: ‘Governments do not rule the world, Goldman Sachs does’
It pays to listen to every single word from this trader interviewed by the BBC: (rumours that he is a Yes Men actor are NOT confirmed)
Unresolved legal issues hamper the development of sound open hardware licenses
Good summary of the issue by Jonathan Kuniholm, on the Open Manufacturing list: “Every single effort to tackle the problem of open hardware licensing has failed to acknowledge that it is unclear what we are licensing (TAPR, CERN, OHANDA, OSHW, you name it), and if any license will withstand a legal challenge. Open source software… Continue reading
Art-leaks.org
“Only by drawing attention to concrete abuses can we underscore the precarious condition of cultural workers and the necessity for sustained protest against the appropriation of politically engaged art, culture and theory by institutions embedded in a tight mesh of capital and power.” http://art-leaks.org/about/ The precarious nature of working in the arts means that artists… Continue reading
Catching up with Puerta del Sol in Madrid
The New Significance has published a short video filmed in the now iconic Puerta del Sol square in Madrid, symbol of the Spanish protest movement knows as 15M (for May 15th, first day of protests). Catch up with insight, latest developments and plans for the future here: The movement hopes to make their global October… Continue reading