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How Going Digital Could Threaten Civil Society
Newsweek announces the digital transition Newsweek is going digital. Completely online. No print product. The Guardian is considering a similar move. I admit I have bouts of sentiment for the printed...
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The Return of the Square
Two is a trend. Vine, the new social media app that allows you to post 6 sec video clips, has a square format. The videos are in a 1:1 aspect ratio. This follows Instagram, the popular photo sharing...
View ArticleTap Essays: Native Internet Art
http://twitter.com/samatlounge/status/320275455842332673 I enjoyed this short essay promoting Lauren Leto’s book. It’s honest and (I assume) true to the book it seeks to promote. It’s also presented in...
View ArticleJail Verse: Poems from Kondengui Prison
The latest act of literary campaigning from English PEN is to publish Jail Verse: Poems from Kondengui Prison by Enoh Meyomesse. Enoh has been an opposition activist in Cameroon for decades. In 2012 he...
View ArticleLiz Kendall as a Quick Case Study on Political Persuasion in the Digital Age
On Monday, Labour Party members received an e-mail from Liz Kendall in their inboxes: an open letter. You probably think I’m writing to ask you for your vote in the upcoming election for party leader....
View ArticleOnline Harms: A Few Times When The Algorithms Chilled Freedom of Expression
The consultation to the British government’s Online Harms White Paper closed this week. English PEN and Scottish PEN made a submission, arguing that the government rethink its approach. The government...
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