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Wired and wild: is the information age ecological?

Wired and wild: is the information age ecological? | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Global connectivity means we now have the means, motive and opportunity to radically reorganise society to enable citizens to thrive within an abundant biosphere, says Matt Mellen
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Inspired by Wikipedia, Social Scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys | MIT Technology Review

Inspired by Wikipedia, Social Scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys | MIT Technology Review | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Most of the information on Wikipedia comes from a tiny proportion of users. Now social scientists are collecting data in a similar way, allowing participants to design surveys as they contribute.
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Does information have value? | Sense & Reference

Does information have value? | Sense & Reference | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Information has Value acknowledges that the creation of information and products derived from information requires a commitment of time, original thought, and resources that need to be respected by those seeking to use these products, or create their own based on the work of others. In addition, information may be valued more or less highly based on its creator, its audience/consumer, or its message.


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The Transformative Impact of Data and Communication on Governance: Part 2

The Transformative Impact of Data and Communication on Governance: Part 2 | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
In part two of his three part series Dr. Steven Livingston writes about how areas of limited statehood include several possible dimensions of failed service delivery, or an inability to enforce binding rules with legitimate use of force. He offers examples of the use of technology that at least partially address governance shortfalls in areas of limited statehood.
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WII? (2a) Information Theory, Claude Shannon, Entropy, Redundancy, Data Compression & Bits

Is reality indistinguishable from information? Is consciousness a self-aware, self-modifying information field? Does information have intrinsic meaning? How does meaningfulness arise? How do sentient and non-sentient entities differ in the way they perceive and process information?...
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Deserting the Digital Utopia / CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

Deserting the Digital Utopia / CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The ideal capitalist product would derive its value from the ceaseless unpaid labor of the entire human race. We would be dispensable; it would be indispensable. It would integrate all human activity into a single unified terrain, accessible only via additional corporate products, in which sweatshop and marketplace merged. It would accomplish all this under the banner of autonomy and decentralization, perhaps even of “direct democracy.”

 
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Information revolution

The term information revolution (sometimes called also the "informational revolution") describes current economic, social and technological trends beyond the ...
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Information Theory: Intellectual Foundation for the Digital Age - Businessweek

Information Theory: Intellectual Foundation for the Digital Age - Businessweek | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
In 1948, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Bell Labs researcher Claude Shannon, was published, laying the intellectual foundation for the Digital Age
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Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine

The political economy of the information machine is discussed within the Marxist tradition of Italian operaismo by posing the hypothesis of an informational turn already at work in the age of the industrial revolution. The idea of valorizing
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The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are You Network Literate?

The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are You Network Literate? | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
It’s said that when architects walk through an office, they see ceiling ornamentation, light sources, building acoustics. When psychologists walk through an office, they see unresolved father issues (Well written article.
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Video: Eszter Hargittai on “Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use” (CNI Plenary Presentation) | LJ INFOdocket

Video: Eszter Hargittai on “Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use” (CNI Plenary Presentation) | LJ INFOdocket | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Based on original data, the talk considers disparities in people’s Web use skills and how skills relate to what people do online. Those who know how to navigate the Web’s vast landscape can reap significant benefits from it. In contrast, those who lack online abilities may have a harder time dealing with certain logistics of everyday life, may miss out on opportunities and may also obtain incorrect information from unreliable sources or come to rely on unsubstantiated rumors.

 
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WII? (2a) Information Theory, Claude Shannon, Entropy, Redundancy, Data Compression & Bits

Is reality indistinguishable from information? Is consciousness a self-aware, self-modifying information field? Does information have intrinsic meaning? How does meaningfulness arise? How do sentient and non-sentient entities differ in the way they perceive and process information?...

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The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: The State of the Information Society

First, in an increasingly balkanized society -- with all the potential for mischief that the Balkan roots of the phrase suggest -- is Internet-based political discourse making things better, or worse? 

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