Media and Revolution 2.0: Tiananmen to Tahrir
New media inspires new generation to protest? It’s an old trope, argues a China scholar taking a practiced eye at the turmoil in the Arab world.
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The Arab Spring’s Cascading Effects
The director of Project on Information Technology and Political Islam argues both the dangers of overemphasizing and ignoring the role of digital media in political change in Egypt and Tunisia.
Social Media – The U.S. Government’s Conflicted Response
The U.S. government has an awkward relationship with social media, praising its use in Egypt and suing in its use for WikiLeaks.
Reweaving Tax Nets to Nab Online Shoppers
American shoppers owe sales taxes on online purchases whether Amazon and its friends assess them or not. States are trying various gambits to recoup those lost dollars.
Why Facebook Wants You to Have More Friends
Like a kind of social Ponzi scheme, the secret of social media is attracting more and more friends — to leverage more and more friends.
How (Not) to Slow the Spread of Computer Viruses
Microsoft, without a touch of irony, says that a healthy Internet is one that quarantines infected computers.
How Truthy is the Twitter Torrent?
Just in time for midterms, cyber-epidemiologists create a tool to examine the questionable memes making the rounds on Twitter.
Information Superhighway Just Vapid Transit?
Suggestions that the Internet is making mankind dumb (or smarter) founder on logical pitfalls and historical predecessors.
War With Iran? Stuxnet May Be First Cybersalvo
Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer worm, was aimed (perhaps) at Iran's nuclear program — welcome to the 21st century.
Facebook Friendships Based on Assumptions
New research finds people tend to assume their Facebook friends agree with their political views — and they’re wrong much more often than they realize.