Gestern hat die NSA bekannt gegeben, ihre offensiven und defensiven Cyberwarfähigkeiten zusammen zu legen. Diese Entscheidung verstärkt den Trend zur Vermischung von Cyberwar, Spionage und Überwachung weiter. Diese Entscheidung steht auch im starken Gegensatz zu den Empfehlungen der Kommission zu Reformvorschlägen der NSA Massenüberwachung ( Clarke, R. A., Morell, M. J., Stone, G. R., & […]
What Google suggestions say about social theories
While struggling with Latour’s actor network theory I did what every serious social science scholar did – I googled it, hoping to find an easy introduction or an example. While typing into Google I noticed the auto-complete suggestions, which suggested that most of the people were struggling with the same issue. Most wanted an example, hence […]
Internet Difffusion and Usage Statistics added
As a service to my readers, I have added a few charts and datasets mapping the global and regional diffusion of the Internet since the 1990s. I have collected this material as part of my Ph.D. thesis and wanted to share it with a wider audience. Feel free to use the aggregate data sets. You’ll […]