Worth reading: Adam Thierer’s review of ‘Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Int…
Worth reading: Adam Thierer's review of 'Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom'
Not only because of the growing power struggles over networks and contents, but also because of the crucial political debate about which strategies to maintain and expand freedom and democracy.
Thierer does nail some good critics, such as his section arguing that to treat Google and Facebook as "sovereign" (kind of Googledom, Facebookistan) is a self-fulfilling prophecy. But sometimes his critics of MacKinnon may read as weak as his presentation of her own case. His definition of "sovereign" reads a bit too classical XIXth century for contemporary realities. I also find his quest for a Net free from State intervention as naive as the quest for enlighten State regulation. The very protection of 47 U.S.C. § 230 he applauds because it shields online operators from liability for information posted or published on their systems by users actually is a State intervention that, not only has permitted the Yelp, Twitter, eBay to flourish, but also permitted them to become sort of public services.
Thierer recommends reading this book: I will certainly follow it. And I definitely recommend reading his take on it. I will certainly re-read it, and study both.
From Michel Cartier’s Formal and Informal Groups to Personal and Impersonal Groups for PIP
Reading Michel Cartier’s Les groupes d’intérêts et les collectivités locales (Interest Groups and Local Communities)*, I came across the diagram entitled “A Society Operating by Levels” that distinguishes between:
- individual and couple (circle representing a human head);
- informal groups (circle filled by seven human heads);
- formal groups (circle filled by three groups of four to six human heads interconnected with each other); and
- society (circle representing a globe).
Formal group: “Group of people who demand a better quality of life and operate from the adhesion and participation of its members.”
Informal Group: ” Familiar small group operating face to face”
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I was particularly struck by the distinction between formal group and informal group. This led me to wonder whether there was a conceptual difference to be made in the Picture of Interpersonal Information Process (PIP) model between formal and informal group or population. (more…)
Sources of free icons to represent interpersonal information processes
Dominique Lamy of Branchez-Vous! Techno recently presented sources of free icons. Among the eight sites, three offered icons useable to produce pictures of interpersonal information processes (PIP).
Iconshock offers nearly a million icons, a number steadily rising. Only a few collections, however, are offered free without conditions. A small number of icons that must be found can be used to describe the processes themselves. Many others to describe the processes’ actors.
Iconza provides free a small number of 112 relatively simple icons whose colors can be customized before uploading.
Iconpot is a directory of free icons collections.
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