Online crowd-sourcing of scientific data could document the worldwide loss of glaciers to climate change
Ed: Project Pressure has created a platform for crowdsourcing glacier imagery, often photographs taken by climbers and trekkers. Why are scientists interested in these images? And what’s the scientific value of the data set that’s being gathered by the platform? Klaus: Comparative photography using historical photography allows year-on-year comparisons to document glacier change. The platform [...]
The last 2010 issue of Policy and Internet has just been published! We are pleased to present seven articles, all of which focus on a substantive public policy issue arising from widespread use of the Internet: online political advocacy and petitioning, nationalism and borders online, unintended consequences of the introduction of file-sharing legislation, and the [...]
Continue reading …Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Campaigning in the 2010 UK General Election
17 September 2010 No CommentThe first day of the conference found an end in style with a well-received reception at Oxford’s fine Divinity Schools. Day Two of the conference kicked off with panels on “Mobilisation and Agenda Setting”,“Virtual Goods” and “Comparative Campaigning”. ICTlogy has been busy summarising some of the panels at the conference including this morning one’s with some interesting contributions [...]
Continue reading …Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Political Participation and Petitioning
16 September 2010 No CommentThis panel was one of three in the first round of panels and has been focusing on ePetitions. Two contributions from Germany and two contributions from the UK brought a useful comparative perspective to the debate. ePetitions are an interesting research object because not only is petitioning a rather popular political participation activity offline but [...]
Continue reading …We are pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of Policy and Internet, the first multi-disciplinary academic journal to investigate the policy implications of the Internet. The journal is edited at the Oxford Internet Institute, published by BE Press and funded by the Policy Studies Organization. The first issue includes Helen Margetts (the Editor) [...]
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This blog investigates the implications of the Internet for public policy. It covers work by the Oxford Internet Institute, and work published in its journal Policy & Internet (Wiley-Blackwell).
Policy & Internet calls for papers that present genuinely new approaches to policy questions or problems relating to the Internet and related ICTs. Ed-in-Chief: Helen Margetts. Submit your paper.
