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eHealth: what is needed at the policy level? New special issue from Policy...
Image by sicamp.The explosive growth of the Internet and its omnipresence in people’s daily lives has facilitated a shift in information seeking on health, with the Internet now a key information...
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The “IPP2012: Big Data, Big Challenges” conference explores the new research...
Recent years have seen an increasing buzz around how ‘Big Data’ can uncover patterns of human behaviour and help predict social trends. Most social activities today leave digital imprints that can be...
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People increasingly turn to the Internet for health information, with 80 percent of U.S. Internet users (59 percent of adults) having used the Web for this purpose. However, because there is so much...
View ArticleUncovering the structure of online child exploitation networks
The Internet has provided the social, individual, and technological circumstances needed for child pornography to flourish. Sex offenders have been able to utilize the Internet for dissemination of...
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Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?
“Libya unrest: fighting continues in Tripoli” The Guardian’s Interactive Libya Map (Friday 26 August 2011) The Middle East has recently witnessed a series of popular uprisings against autocratic...
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Online collective action and policy change: new special issue from Policy and...
Global Day of Action, Durban, 2011. Image by theverb.org.The Internet has multiplied the platforms available to influence public opinion and policy making. It has also provided citizens with a greater...
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How accessible are online legislative data archives to political scientists?
A view inside the House chamber of the Utah State Legislature. Image by deltaMike. Public demands for transparency in the political process have long been a central feature of American democracy, and...
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The global fight over copyright control: Is David beating Goliath at his own...
Anti-HADOPI march in Paris, 2009. Image by kurto. In the past few years, many governments have attempted to curb online “piracy” by enforcing harsher copyright control upon Internet users. This trend...
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Presenting the moral imperative: effective storytelling strategies by online...
Final leg of the GetUp! climate change torch relay, Parliament House, Canberra. Image by pierre pouliquin Online campaigning organisations are on the rise. They have captured the imagination of...
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How effective is online blocking of illegal child sexual content?
The recent announcement by ‘Anonymous Belgium’ (above) that they would ‘liberate the Belgian Web’ on 15 July 2013 in response to blocking of websites by the Belgian government was revealed to be a...
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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, centre, waving to crowd, after delivering his acceptance speech on the final night of the 2012 Republican National Convention. Image by NewsHour. Recently, there...
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Can text mining help handle the data deluge in public policy analysis?
Citizen participation poses certain challenges for the design and analysis of public policy; in particular, governments must demonstrate that all opinions expressed through participatory exercises have...
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Exploring variation in parental concerns about online safety issues
Parents have different and often conflicting views about what’s best for their children, creating a significant challenge for designing positive interventions. Image: elementary school iPad Boot Camp...
View ArticleInternet, Politics, Policy 2010: Wrap-Up
Our two-day conference is just about to come to an end with an evening reception at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum (you can have a live view through OII’s very own webcam…). Its aim was to try to make an...
View ArticlePublic policy responses to cybercrime: a new special issue from Policy and...
Cybercrime is just one of many significant and challenging issues of ethics and public policy raised by the Internet. It has policy implications for both national and supra-national legislation,...
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eHealth: what is needed at the policy level? New special issue from Policy...
Image by sicamp.The explosive growth of the Internet and its omnipresence in people’s daily lives has facilitated a shift in information seeking on health, with the Internet now a key information...
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The “IPP2012: Big Data, Big Challenges” conference explores the new research...
Recent years have seen an increasing buzz around how ‘Big Data’ can uncover patterns of human behaviour and help predict social trends. Most social activities today leave digital imprints that can be...
View ArticleSearching for a “Plan B”: young adults’ strategies for finding information...
People increasingly turn to the Internet for health information, with 80 percent of U.S. Internet users (59 percent of adults) having used the Web for this purpose. However, because there is so much...
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Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere
Widely reported as fraudulent, the 2011 Russian Parliamentary elections provoked mass street protest action by tens of thousands of people in Moscow and cities and towns across Russia. Image by Nikolai...
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The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery
Cloud services are not meant to recognize national frontiers, but to thrive on economies of scale and scope globally — presenting particular challenges to government. Image by NASA Goddard Photo and...
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