07.07.04
Hey,
To all you (probably rather few) visitors: I'm sorry for not keeping this site up-to-date. The thesis has taken up most of my time, so that I'm not able to follow up on my initial intentions.
For those visiting danes, that might wish to see what else I've been up to, please visit my homepage: Inkamedia.dk
Thanks for now and I'll see you out there somewhere else.
Kindest regards
Jeppe Bo Pedersen
To all you (probably rather few) visitors: I'm sorry for not keeping this site up-to-date. The thesis has taken up most of my time, so that I'm not able to follow up on my initial intentions.
For those visiting danes, that might wish to see what else I've been up to, please visit my homepage: Inkamedia.dk
Thanks for now and I'll see you out there somewhere else.
Kindest regards
Jeppe Bo Pedersen
30.09.03
Recently discovered Freemuse.org which is an subdivision under the Danish Centre for Human Rights. A few employees and a lot of volunteers gathers and spreads information about incidents of music censorship and violations of the freedom of expression articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Articles, reports and videos about the subject illuminates worldwide music censorship problems on the Freemuse.org website.
25.09.03
Diversity and sharing of knowledge and opinions is what I seek!
Why not share thoughts on a relatively important task such as a written thesis (yes I am indeed struggling my way towards completing 80 pages of academic reflexivity on paper). Important? Well, for me at least. This weblog has been launched in order to be my research archive as well as a chance for others to widen my horizon in all possible dimensions. Please contribute, harass, agree, disagree, comment on anything you must feel for on these pages - in the name of diversity!
The subject of this weblog (and in the end: my thesis) is in it self a work in progress, but anyway my thoughts, widely put, circle around subjects like: Activism, Hacking, Hacktivism, Human Rights (mainly Freedom of Expression and Censorhip) and things worth fighting for and the way it is done and covered by the media.
This may sound like very unrelated issues, but hold that thought and instead center your focus on the essay Open Policy by Paul Miller of Forum for the Future
In this essay Paul Miller nicely covers the phenomenon of "Hacktivism" and moves this towards a common ground on a way to act, a sort of value-based policy named "Open Policy". In short, he describes numerous incidents where creative, computersmart people has succeeded in grabbing peoples, organizations and the divers medias attention through effective use of computers and the Internet, which hook up these creative hackers with the wired world, where they are able to make magnificent things happen with (un)foreseen effects aound the world.
Through the Internet we are linked together in a relatively small world, which creates opportunity for the little man (or group) to force significant impact on the world just ny adressing e-mails, changing websites ie. making statements on a "right" way. A right way could be thriving towards the Open Policy, which is all about being open about the things you, we, corporations, states, nations do - in fact quite the opposite of many businesses behaviour in the present era in time. A nice, idealistic way of looking at things that is, and its roots go back to scientists, hackers (the creators of the Internet), open source-programmers and the like but it seems to be easily adjustable for a much broader spectre of subjects and fields.
In the essay you also find links to a lot af interesting literature on the four main subjects of: 1) the small worlds phenomenon (living in a closely linked world), 2) the network society, 3) the hacker ethic (see eg. Pekka Himanen: The Hacker Ethic), 4) Internet and communication (the Internet creates activity).
Why not share thoughts on a relatively important task such as a written thesis (yes I am indeed struggling my way towards completing 80 pages of academic reflexivity on paper). Important? Well, for me at least. This weblog has been launched in order to be my research archive as well as a chance for others to widen my horizon in all possible dimensions. Please contribute, harass, agree, disagree, comment on anything you must feel for on these pages - in the name of diversity!
The subject of this weblog (and in the end: my thesis) is in it self a work in progress, but anyway my thoughts, widely put, circle around subjects like: Activism, Hacking, Hacktivism, Human Rights (mainly Freedom of Expression and Censorhip) and things worth fighting for and the way it is done and covered by the media.
This may sound like very unrelated issues, but hold that thought and instead center your focus on the essay Open Policy by Paul Miller of Forum for the Future
In this essay Paul Miller nicely covers the phenomenon of "Hacktivism" and moves this towards a common ground on a way to act, a sort of value-based policy named "Open Policy". In short, he describes numerous incidents where creative, computersmart people has succeeded in grabbing peoples, organizations and the divers medias attention through effective use of computers and the Internet, which hook up these creative hackers with the wired world, where they are able to make magnificent things happen with (un)foreseen effects aound the world.
Through the Internet we are linked together in a relatively small world, which creates opportunity for the little man (or group) to force significant impact on the world just ny adressing e-mails, changing websites ie. making statements on a "right" way. A right way could be thriving towards the Open Policy, which is all about being open about the things you, we, corporations, states, nations do - in fact quite the opposite of many businesses behaviour in the present era in time. A nice, idealistic way of looking at things that is, and its roots go back to scientists, hackers (the creators of the Internet), open source-programmers and the like but it seems to be easily adjustable for a much broader spectre of subjects and fields.
In the essay you also find links to a lot af interesting literature on the four main subjects of: 1) the small worlds phenomenon (living in a closely linked world), 2) the network society, 3) the hacker ethic (see eg. Pekka Himanen: The Hacker Ethic), 4) Internet and communication (the Internet creates activity).
