MFIA Amicus in Illinois First Amendment case- with EFF
The Media Freedom and Information Practicum is proud to announce that, along with EFF, it has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate in the comments section of a local newspaper’s website. Battle Over Message Board Flame War [...]
Tweet-Crime?
We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit. Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh. Is [...]
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, on newsgathering
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, yesterday. I took the opportunity to ask him about Wikipedia’s relationship to legacy journalism, and his thoughts about the decrease in newsgathering, and what systems might take its place. Because of its system of cross-references to “reliable” outside sources, Wikipedia depends [...]
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