I believe... (come to you, inside you)

At the recent Oscar Awards ceremony, a movie called The Social Network was racing to be the best picture of the year. About this film’ representation, Wikipedia says:   “As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users… According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.”  If you see these numbers, you probably think:   “now, everyone gets involved inside internet… perhaps, all we are the social ne...

Sharing is caring (The right to share)

I believe that sharing should be a right in the digital age because as human beings, we are entitled to share. We like to share our opinions, our work, to share questions and even complaints. It is a natural response, an impulse, you may think. This kind of exchange endorses our communication process. The digital age multiplies our possibilities of sharing with others; internet is certainly a good tool for this purpose.

I believe that we have the right to hack.

Hackers? sounds like a bad term nowadays thanks to hollywood movies and the computer criminal myth, in general culture hackers are people who can get into your computer, steal information, get your bank acounts put you viruses and more evil stuff.  But it was not always this way. The term comes from train modeling at MIT, they coined the term hackers to themself to identify the people that modified and tweaked the trains for better performance or appeal. Later on the term passed to the c...

It's the Bandwidth

As someone who grew up breathing technology, my mind and fingers shoot up with rage faster than a dial-up connection loading Google's homepage whenever I find myself disconnected. And those YouTube videos that "isn't available in your country"? *nerve throbbing*

New articleRights in the Digital Age: Freedom of Access

Think about this: we talk about digital natives and rights, flying to the moon and back, space-age technology and what not, but the problem still remains that a majority of us do not have access to technologies that connect us with ‘that’ digital world.

The right to be read and heard by anyone

I like to be really optimistic and assume that huge progressive world-wide movements in this decade will successfully fight for net neutrality and the right for every person in the world to have access to the Internet. Having overcome that battle, the next challenge would be to promote the right for everyone to be read and heard over the Internet despite all language barriers and, thus, also enforce the technological mechanisms that allow that to happen.

The right to be many

One of the fundamental units of any right based discourse, is the individual. The universe of rights revolves around the unquestioned idea of how each one of us is a single person. Sure we are allowed to have different personalities (if you have too many of them, you are also allowed to be commited in an asylum) and we are allowed to have different identities (Sexual, Religious, Political etc.). However, the person, the individual, the citizen, remains a singular, corporeal body that can be i...

And who said that Gender does not matter in social Change?

“We are tired of hearing about Gender, What’s wrong with you Women?” These are some of the words that many people echo when you mention GENDER. As if gender means WOMEN!!

I believe that free music should be a right in the digital age

It’s a dicey subject. Napster dealt with it and we all watched to see what would happen to our freedom to access the music we loved. And when it was over we were left in the rubble of copyright issues, intellectual property debates and a growing mechanism of workarounds. The internet is a sub world, still young, where people practice their most basic animal right of open access…to all…for everything. Even if it cannibalizes on the people who made ‘everything’ exist in the first place.

Maybe we have lost the right to not-know.

Therefore, we empower our right to information. This is the digital age. The world is one village.

The right to lurk

The right to lurk. Here we go blogathon: my right of the digital age is the right to lurk. I was reluctant to write this post, because I have been so busy lately that I didn't even imagine having the mental capacity to think of a right. But the right to lurk: that put me right back here. For Fieke writes eloquently about the right to unplug and Nishant about the right to be many, and I couldn't but nod my head silently (and get slowly dragged into thoughts of rights).

Digital Rights Blogathon

Last week, in light of the human rights celebration in South Africa, digital natives from different parts of the world have given use their view on the digital rights that need to be ensured in 20, 30 or even 50 years time. In this Blogathon they were asked to reflect on what should be right in the digital age.