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We idolize the billionaire geniuses of the Internet, but they made their money by tweaking old media monetization models, not by innovating. The true economic value of the Internet has not yet been realized.

The sooner we accept digital technology’s complex and contradictory effect of political power dynamics, the sooner we can move forward to answering more interesting questions about those effects.

The media is a competitive industry, and to understand this jungle journalists must make the connection between the food web and the web.

Digital activist Mary C. Joyce compares Freedom House’s new report on global cyber liberties to OpenNet’s initiative twin report.

While many people think that digital technology can be used for an almost unlimited number of purposes, on closer analysis we can actually distill that list to seven activist uses of digital technology.

Online political activism did not come into its own until after 2003, while real growth in the use of digital technology for campaigning and public political speech did not see a significant increase until 2006.

The modestly-named Books Ngram Viewer allows you to search the frequency of any word in the 5.2-million strong Google Books database

It is true that actions in the “shallow end” rarely bring about the desired change, but ignoring these actions and the people who take reflects a misunderstanding of their value.

Mary Joyce goes through some key findings from the Berkman Center’s first report on Russian Internet society: “Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization”