Wanted: a brave newspaper, for an experiment in which readers become...
I have outlined a scheme that a newspaper could run as an experiment in sharing ownership of a part of its site with reader-commenters. In a future entry in this blog, I will describe the reactions of...
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[ On 10 July 2012, The Independent, a ‘liberal’ London newspaper, declined to publish a comment on press reform linked to this post. That polite comment is here. ] Presiding over an Inquiry whose...
View ArticleJulia Hobsbawm and a few more reasons to be wary of social networking
We are indebted to Ian Jack, writing in his latest Guardian column, for justifying our extreme suspicion of coercive social networking — and especially, of academic theorising about the value of...
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