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A third perspective: Stronghold Sound’s new hip hop album, Khat Thalet, reviewed

The lyrics are all in colloquial Arabic, with artists using different dialects and referring to idioms, metaphors, and historical events from a variety of socio-political contexts, targeting Arabic-speaking communities from North Africa to the Gulf.

By Lina Shaikhouni

/ 13 Mar 2013

Below the line, below the belt?

Comments threads democratise online media, but they present their own problems for free speech.

By Helen Lewis

/ 12 Mar 2013

Gathering clouds over digital freedom?

The debate over the direction of the web has just started, and contradictory messages that need careful scrutiny are emerging from governments and corporations alike.

By Kirsty Hughes

/ 12 Mar 2013

Rebuilding the walls

The internet promised “shared humanity in all its messy glory”. But national governments are keen to turn back the global tide of communications.

By Jillian C. York

/ 12 Mar 2013

Getting copyright right

‘Digital’ means copying. Attempts to defend copyright the old-fashioned way could have unforeseen consequences for the web.

By Joe McNamee

/ 11 Mar 2013

The rise of the anti-politician

The internet is an angry place, as is obvious from any examination of the comments section of blogs or popular news-sites. Anti-politicians have managed to use this disembodied universe we all increasingly inhabit to stoke people’s anger.

By Kaushik Barua

/ 7 Mar 2013

Online aggregation in the 'mass web'

Amidst the ruins of the global economic crisis, the rise of aggregation as the master frame of online interactions, and the adoption of liking as a means to subscribe to collective identities, points to the emergence of a new culture of collectivity which we should welcome and embrace.

By Paolo Gerbaudo

/ 7 Mar 2013

A tale of two webs: Google v the hyperlocal

Now that rats can telepathically tweet without even wielding a mouse, will the tortoise of human organisation win the race, or fall victim to Google glass?

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 2 Mar 2013

Under the regime of precarity: bring your own device

At one and the same time technocracy and financial oligarchies find here an ideal medium to extend their influence and their control of individuals in space and time. This explains the fierce struggle going on among key market players.

By Giorgio Griziotti

/ 24 Feb 2013

Nationhood and the multitude: a new form of political subject?

In the frantic search to find an agreed name for emerging forms of collective agency, ‘the nation’ is frequently presented as an outdated inconvenience. This hasty generalisation fails to acknowledge the term’s continuing role in propping-up ‘invisible’ forms of state domination and, more importan

By Jamie Mackay

/ 22 Feb 2013

Whose news is it anyway?

There is no way back to an untranslated world: in our globalised era, we want to know what is happening elsewhere and we want to hear it from real people.

By Paula Goes

/ 21 Feb 2013

China’s self-defeating war with information

China’s desire to become a dominant global economy while being disconnected from the global information society is a self-defeating proposition.

By Andy Yee

/ 14 Feb 2013