The year 1848 saw four volumes from Lowell's pen - a book of "Poems," the "Fable for Critics," "The Biglow Papers," and the "Vision of Sir Launfal." The second of these exhibited the author as wit and critic, the third as political reformer, the fourth as poet and mystic; and ...
the representative system, one person one vote, and the separation of powers negated and reformed the feudal autocracy in Europe. The well-known French writer Alexis de Tocqueville recognized this in his book Democracy in ...
If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic. This isn’t a book about deep fakes, or misinformation. This is a book a...
Facebook. The difference is, rather than our time being spent on pleasant conveniences we are able to influence our nation as the self-representational government that democracy purports to be. We’re not accustomed to thinking about having visibility into and knowledge of the inner workings of ...
His book has five examples as illustrations of his general theme (and that’s without talking in this book about poverty, or nuclear threats): Finance Pandemics Migration Climate change Cyber-security Many of these problems arise from the success of globalisation – the extraordinary rise in income...
So, what, if anything, is new or different about microtargeting? First, microtargeted advertisements are far more pre- cisely targeted than traditional advertisements. According to ProPublica, Facebook has at least 52,235 categories to sort users into demographic slices—and these are merely the ...
Republican-controlled state legislatures spent 2021 trying to ban the teaching of The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project,” now a book, in public schools. This month in Virginia, a private-equity tycoon based his campaign for governor on denying race as a formative factor in our history ...
Book Google Scholar Freeman, S. 2009. Justice and the social contract: Essays on Rawlsian political philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar Garcia-Penalosa, C., and K. Wälde. 2000. Efficiency and equity effects of subsidies to higher education. Oxford Economic Papers 52...
This chapter is in the book Architectonics of Game Spaces Democracy, Video Games, and Urban DesignMinecraft as a Public Participation ToolJames DelaneyParticipation in urban design is essential to creating inclusive, sustainable and democratic cities. The creation of public space, in particular, shou...
or irritable--(13%); they feel the need to spend more time on the internet to achieve satisfaction--(12%); they repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempt to gain control of, decrease or stop their internet usag...