Posts tagged "Current Affairs"
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Boyd Neil
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May 15, 2012 • Comments Closed
Time and again companies and government are caught out not taking the influence of social web activism seriously when it comes to the flight path of high profile issues.
Yesterday in the Toronto Star, national columnist Chantal Hebert points out the f...
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Boyd Neil
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May 14, 2012 • Comments Closed Headlines in the Canadian broadsheets and schlock newspapers last Friday screamed indignantly about "Disturbing evidence kept from the Rafferty jury". The reference was to a trial underway in Canada of a malignancy disguised as a human being who was co...
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Boyd Neil
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May 11, 2012 • Comments Closed My Google alerts bombard me regularly with articles and posts about digital advocacy and activism, all stored dutifully on Diigo.
Because my search terms are non-partisan, I get the inventive and the dull; the cynical and the passionate; the reflective...
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Boyd Neil
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May 3, 2012 • Comments Closed
SXSWi makes available audio presentations by all the speakers at the four-day interactive conference held annually in Austin, Texas during March.
My presentation on slacktivism and activism is available here. I think you can take away all the major po...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 26, 2012 • Comments Closed
Interviewed as part of a series of articles in The Guardian on who will 'own' the Internet, Sergey Brin (co-founder with Larry Page of Google) took exception to how his interview was used. However, in his rebuttal post on Google+, he made the followin...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 25, 2012 • Comments Closed Earlier this month I was interviewed by Jamillah Knowles, an award-winning podcast producer with Global Voices, for a podcast episode called 'The Good and Bad of Online Campaigns'. Global Voices "seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conv...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 23, 2012 • Comments Closed
Nothing surprising about the failure of Invisible Children's Kony2012 to 'cover the night', or even tickle it.
Counterbalancing the emotional support for the cause and the extraordinary reach and initial force of the video was the damage to Invisible ...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 20, 2012 • Comments Closed As tonight is the controversial 'Cover the Night' protest planned by Invisible Children and launched by its infamous Kony2012 video, (and ironically also a date historically associated with marijuana), this infographic might provide perspective on the ...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 11, 2012 • Comments Closed
(Image is from Andrew Barr at the National Post)
When governments seek to expand their powers of surveillance, I get nervous even if the target is organized crime.
The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights recently r...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 3, 2012 • Comments Closed So, employers think this is smart?
A teacher’s aide in Michigan was let go from her job after a school administrator demanded that she turn over her Facebook password and she refused. The aide, Kimberly Hester, is preparing for a legal showdow...
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Boyd Neil
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Apr 2, 2012 • Comments Closed (This is the final post in a series that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and Privacy: Should Government Be More Inter...
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Boyd Neil
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Mar 22, 2012 • Comments Closed (Fourth in a series of posts that will form a chapter for a university textbook called Communication in Question, Second Edition which will be released in 2013. The chapter is called "Social Networks and Privacy: Should Government Be More Intervention...
