Archives for August 2009

Jurgen Habermas on Deliberative Democracy

Jurgen Habermas on Deliberative Democracy

In this brief and somewhat rare clip, Habermas — speaking in English — talks about his career, communications, democracy, etc. There is not so much …

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Video from the Internet Archive’s Open Mind series Transcript of his talk here at EFF [...] I do not know very much more about computer technology …

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

In True Enough, Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief …

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Not only does this video do a good and simple overview of social media and by extension citizen media, the way in which they tell …