Category: Media in the Digital Society
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Methodology – Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense
I will begin with some autobiographical remarks. I have a double educational background in the humanities and natural sciences. I studied the former at Cornell University and the latter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later in life, I worked for twenty years as a software developer. I had earlier studied literature and philosophy. My…
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How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy
How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy Alan N. Shapiro This is the text of the keynote speech that I gave at the European Union conference “Pluralism and Responsibility: Media in the Digital Society” in Berlin on July 7, 2020. I…