Cedric Ryngaert and Mark Zoetekouw (Utrecht): The End of Territory? The Re-emergence of Community as a Principle of Jurisdictional Order in the Internet Era. Ian Bogost on the cathedral of computation: We’re not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy. Andrew White on how the digital economy isn’t helping the poor — it’s a major source of inequality. Brad DeLong on inequality and the Internet. Frank Pasquale on how we're being stigmatized by “big data” scores we don't even know about. The moral hazard of big data: Malcolm Harris reviews The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information by Frank Pasquale. The data sublime: William Davies on the sublime unknowability of big data lets us fall in love with our own domination. Socialize the data centres: Evgeny Morozov, the leading iconoclast of Internet euphoria, recounts his path from schooling in Belarus through training in Bulgaria to NGO work in Central Europe and fame as author of The Net Delusion in the United States. Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job: As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory. Robert Herritt on Luciano Floridi, Google’s philosopher: How an Oxford don is helping the tech giant understand the nature of modern identity — and stay out of court. Luciano Floridi, Oxford Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins.
