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07 Oct 09

What Have We Done to Democracy? | Arundhati Roy

What happens now that democracy's institutions have all metastasized into something dangerous? <<>> What happens now that democracy + free market have fused into a single predatory organism?

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The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age

Despite new opportunities to distribute content on the web, relatively few people take advantage. Moreover, creative activity is related to a person's socioeconomic status.

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The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction

Far from being solely technical phenomena, search engines and their uses are embedded in a myriad of social processes with socioeconomic consequences. Search engines are influential brokers of information, and are also affected by biases.

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Content Diversity Online: Myth or Reality?

Findings suggest that although people turn to a variety of sources for information online, their actions seem to resemble off-line media consumption patterns. I explore why these behaviors are not necessarily a reflection of user preferences, rather they are at least in part a function of how content is organized and presented online, and skill differences among users.

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