Human rights abuses from the leadership federal and the state of Guerrero.The house of the workers of human rights were vandalizedFueron amenazados de muerte los trabajadores de derechos humanos.Zeferino Torreblanca is responsabe: http://www.suracapulco.com.mx/nota1.php?id_nota=55583 (VIOLACION DERECHOS HUMANOS EN GUERRERO MEXICO,VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN GUERRERO MEXICO),http://www.suracapulco.com.mx/nota1.php?id_nota=55584
Una buena cosa que El Mercurio informe de la pesadilla que vive el Tibet: Mientras China intensifica la represión sobre los tibetanos, los seguidores del Dalai Lama resisten, como lo hacen desde hace 58 años. aquí, un periodista del the New York Times se sumerge en el largo conflicto, mientras la fotógrafa chilena Mónica Oportot muestra el otro Tíbet, el de los exiliados en india. Muchas fotos Zarkozy Boicotea JJOO sin China no dialoga con Tibet Aldea de Gabu, China.
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One of our tasks at the Internet and Democracy Project is to develop an intellectual framework which will aid us in studying the effect of the Internet on democracy. We are beginning by doing a lot of background research on the scholarship of democracy: Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Terry Lynn Karl, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, Larry Diamond. This has been very useful in placing our own research within the context of previous democracy research. Our next step is to
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Moroccan democracy is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I spent the academic year of 2004-2005 in Rabat as a Fulbright scholar studying democratization. Pretty early on, I realized that Moroccan democratization was a fraud, but I was really inspired by the passionate work of Moroccan grassroots activists, which led to my current passion for digital activism. nice Al-Jazeera English analysis of the election Unfortunately, the recent parliamentary elections on September 7th were pretty sad. I
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Today was my first day of class at the Kennedy School and, not surprisingly, one of my readings for tomorrow has inspired me. (Part of the reasons I was looking forward to starting grad school was to have more blogging fodder.)For my class in comparative politics, I was assigned a piece of Robert A. Dahl's 1971 book Polyarchy:Participation and Opposition, specifically, a section on democratization. One throw-away comment that Dahl makes that I really like is that citizens in a
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Note: The idea of semiotic democracy - the collaborative public definition of cultural signs (semeîon in Greek) - is gaining popularity, particularly as it applies the the Internet. Here's a passage on semiotic democracy from my case study on the citizen journalism web site OhmyNews. Please feel free to correct my interpretations. Citizen reporters take part in the semiotic process of creating meaning within a culture. They cease to be a passive audience for the culture products which reflect the
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Note: In June I was hired by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society to write a case study about the effect that the Korean citizen journalism site OhmyNews has had on democracy in that country. I finished the first draft of the report last week. This is the executive summary. Ever since Tom Paine wrote "Common Sense" in 1776, citizen journalism has been strengthening democracy. By providing an alternative to mainstream media in both content and perspective, citizen journalism
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Most of the Internet is like a village square where the rich come to sell you something and the powerful come to remind you who is boss. The rich don't expect you to interact with them and they don't want you to interact with them unless it will somehow encourage you to buy more. The powerful don't expect you to interact with them and they don't want you to interact with you unless it will somehow encourage you to be
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Why the World Needs Rayt The reason I developed the idea for Rayt is because Web 2.0 does not exist. We don't have Web 2.0, we have web sites 2.0. Some sites - like del.icio.us, Digg, and Wikipedia - allow users to interact and create contents, but most websites merely broadcast They create content and they don't really care what you think about it. I want users to be able to contribute content to every page on the internet. I
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