Is Ice Cream Strawberry? Paul Bradshaw City University, 3 March 2011

This lecture is about technology people institutions culture

Don’t believe the hype.

The legacy of Leibniz and Lovelace (Digitisation and Convergence)

‘ Convergence’ image by x-ray_delta_one

Cars, roads and picnics (Getting Things Done) image by conskeptical

Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police department’s website and gathers all crimes reported in Chicago. - Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock “

Disintermediated, disagreggated, modularised .

The production line has been replaced by a network . image by

Is Ice Cream Strawberry? image by pink sherbert photography

It is frightful that someone who is no one can set any error into circulation with the aid of this dreadful disproportioned means of communication. - Soren Kierkegaard “

TV newspeople have the intellectual depth of hamsters. TV news can only present the bare bones of a story. - Dave Barry “

“ Human capital”

Journalism’s conflicted future

Deliberative democracy image by psi_mon

Liberal democracy image by woody1969

Participatory democracy image by murplejane

Culture shift

Corporatisation of the public sphere

Net neutrality

(Those two futures)

EVERYTHING I’ve just said in SEVEN easy-to-remember SOUNDBITES

Stop trying to recreate the closed market 1

See users as an asset, not a cost 2

Get over yourself 3

Make power accountable 4

Hold power to account 5

Protect the public sphere 6

Stop confusing ice cream with the flavour 7

Thank you. For all articles mentioned in this presentation, and image credits go to Delicious.com/paulb/inaug

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