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New Zealand's Web Filter2 comments

Brad Taylor wrote 1 day ago: The New Zealand Government has apparently already been blocking access to some child porn sites, and … more →

Tags: Technology & Policy, Web filtering, censorship

so, what do horse groomers call themselves nowadays?

excessiveellipses wrote 1 week ago: we need to come up with another word for (attempted) seduction of the underage…”groomin … more →

Tags: calm down, everyone..., across the pond (take a right), freakshows, Soapbox, UK, grooming, underage, schoolgirl, Bisexual

Germany to ban all violent video-games?

kilodeltamike wrote 2 weeks ago: In the wake of the Winnenden school shootings earlier this year, German politicians are proposing a … more →

Tags: Critical Social Psychology, social cognition, Social Influence, Ban, bandura, byron, Causation, Columbine, Germany

The public and the MPs' expenses scandal

shanecroucher wrote 1 month ago: We’re now at the end of the literal shit-storm created by the MPs’ expenses scandal, which le … more →

Tags: MP, Expenses, Public

It's not intuitive: the case for online education2 comments

britbohlinger wrote 1 month ago: In mid-April Howard Rheingold wrote about 21st Century Literacies, I remembered his post when I came … more →

Tags: online collaboration tools, sociology of the internet, Emotional Labour, capacity building, generation digital native, knowledge

The Occasional Broken Penis is a Small Price to Pay

Brad Taylor wrote 1 month ago: The Jamaican government is cracking down on a new dance craze which is as dangerous as it is sexy (H … more →

Tags: Bigotry, healthism, Prudishness

State Sponsored Fear

kilodeltamike wrote 1 month ago: A recent police-funded counter-terrorism campaign within the United Kingdom has resulted in the app … more →

Tags: Critical Social Psychology, Culture and Diversity, Group/Intergroup Processes, Social Influence, Terrorism, police, Fear, Big Brother, appeal to fear

Moral Panic and the Availability Heuristic

Brad Taylor wrote 1 month ago: It is now conventional wisdom that many of our problems are the result of living in an environment v … more →

Tags: Political Theory, Economics, Bias, democracy, Evolutionary Psychology

killer spiele werte. zur komplexität einer verbotsdebatte und ihres spielgegenstandes11 comments

hampuslarsson wrote 1 month ago: mit reichlicher verspätung stelle ich hier meine im märz beendete bachelorarbeit über computerspiele … more →

Tags: Gedrucktes, BachelorArbeit, Killerspiele, Panorama

The Boy-Racer Moral Panic2 comments

Brad Taylor wrote 1 month ago: The New Zealand government is cracking down on those anti-social youths: “Images of young peop … more →

Tags: Bigotry, expressive voting, NZ Politics, symbolic politics

Chalk River Reactor: Lingering Issues.

geochow wrote 1 month ago: - George Chow In January 2008, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission [CNSC] president, Linda Keen, … more →

Tags: Notes and Commentary, George Chow, Politics, Environment, Canada, Energy, Chalk River, Stephen Harper, Moralism

Weeks 13 and 14 A4b - No such thing as a Net Generation

Em Nugent wrote 2 months ago: Bennett, S., Maton, K. and Kervin, L. (2008) The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the … more →

Tags: h800, bennett, Digital Divide, Net Generation, Weeks13&14

Daily Five.

Jim Morrow wrote 2 months ago: The Peruvian army has been dispatched to confront indigenous protesters. Chevron does not sit well i … more →

Tags: Daily Five, technology, Politics, Environment, London, Corporations, UK, Energy, Civil Rights

New Media: Is it really the end for experts?

loydandrews wrote 2 months ago: New media has generally been associated with a democratization of information. This association has … more →

Tags: New Media, Pro/Am Divide, democratization, Professional, Amateurs

Swine flu pandemic infects Twitter5 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 2 months ago: It should be obvious by now that Twitter is a useful viral marketing tool – whatever you might … more →

Tags: Social Networks, Twitter, swine flu, twitter

The Welfare Queen Is Alive and Well and Living With Dr. Mengele in Bertioga

Colin Brayton wrote 2 months ago: Moral panic: Gratuitious argumentum ad Nazium (creative synergies with Buddhist visions of Hell). A … more →

Tags: Ali Kamel, Brazil, Education, Neocons, Ronald Reagan, Welfare

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. by Colin Cox

artfist wrote 3 months ago: The relatively new pastime known as twat baiting is derived from the baiting of twats in order to ma … more →

Tags: features, issue four, colin cox, stoke-on-trent

Facebook vigilantes "just can't get enough"4 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 4 months ago: The Witches of Facebook [so you can read background] This is now something of a casebook social phen … more →

Tags: Social Networks, Social Media, facebook, folk devils, facebook vigilantes

The witches of Facebook - lynch mobs dribblejaws' style13 comments

ethicalmartini wrote 5 months ago: If Facebook is the new global village, it’s a village full of fucken’idiots, simpletons … more →

Tags: Backlash, Journalism ethics, bourgeois justice, journalism in the digital age, Crime and Deviance, facebook, folk devils, Contempt of Court, Victorian Bushfires 2009


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