Henrik Juel (Roskilde): Social Media and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Are social networks risky?: Mehmet Sahinoglu and Aysen Dener Akkaya on assessing and mitigating risk. "Freshwater will be the new oil": Alexander Gorlach interviews Vint Cerf, one of the "fathers of the internet," on innovation, social networks, and the future of human society. Meet Scott Vener, the music man making Myspace cool again (or trying to). Turning memes into gold: An interview with Ben Lashes, the world’s premier meme agent. Chris Horton on Google’s utopian quest: Benevolent tech monopoly of the future? Kim Zetter on how a Google headhunter’s e-mail unraveled a massive net security hole. Is Wikipedia going commercial? It started out as the greatest free resource on the Web, but now the encyclopedia is drawing profit-seeking writers. Dominique Cardon on the Internet and its democratic virtues. Charles Graeber goes inside the mansion — and mind — of Kim Dotcom, the most wanted man on the net. From Daily Dot, Fernando Alfonso on 4chan's 9 most memorable controversies; and Lindsey Weber attempts what no person has before: a list of lists of lists of lists.
