This week we take a look at two very different articles with an underlying connection: mediating communications in a shared, finite space. The first article is based on an address given by Garrett Hardin in Logan, Utah, in 1968, on population control (how ironic it was given in Utah of all places!), and the second is a quantitative research analysis of politically motivated web users undertaken in 2003 by Thomas Johnson and Barbara Kaye. Below are three general questions.
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Reading reflections: on politics, the web, and the tragedy of the commons
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Tags: Garrett Hardin, Langdon Winner, morality, politics, technology, Utah
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The Social Media-savvy Side of a Campaign to Protect Marriage
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
As a recent Californian transplant to Washington state, I had the opportunity to briefly involve myself in the campaign to define marriage as hetero-only when I was living down there in Los Angeles. A large contingent of young voters have taken to the issue on both sides. Prop 8, as it’s called, would insert wording into the California constitution that would legally define marriage as being only between a man and a woman. About 8 years ago a state referendum was passed declaring the same as state law, but the state courts later determined that it didn’t measure up to constitutional standards. So, the only way around this has become to change the state constitution completely – the checks and balances of democracy at work. And the campaigns on both sides are hard at work. (more…)
Tags: politics, prop8, religion, social media
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