I found that the talk was more wandering than insightful (I'm prone to that myself, so I shouldn't complain) but danah boyd's recent take on the culture of fear is getting some attention, so I pass it along (in its asymmetric glory) here. "The more stimuli there are competing for your attention, the more that attention seekers must fight to capture your attention. More often than not, this results in psychological warfare." The best point comes at the very end: social networks and new technologies, which were once disruptive agents, now represent the status quo. They are what we made the web. Are we prepared to live with that? Keith Lyons, meanwhile, draws a connection between this and Fergus Hanson discussing e-diplomacy on Radio National’s World Today program (and following up on his paper Revolution at State).
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