What is the difference between a whistle blower and a criminal? What does the 40hr work week have to do with being a recently released inmate? How do you survive in prison when you’ve been declared a national security threat for revealing information about government interrogation techniques? You can ponder all this (and more) while watching the following Vice News …
Art and Information: An Exploration into Communication, Censorship, and Influence
The modern age of mass communication brings us many messages that improve our lives, but we must arm ourselves with the knowledge of its power to influence, lull, suppress, or deceive through techniques that affect a spectrum of human emotion. There is an obscured and often unnoticed tendency towards information manipulation in our complex media environment, undertaken by politicians, government …
Who Controls the World?
What degree of influence do corporations really have in the power politics of the world? James Glattfelder asserts that ownership is related to control, and claims that by looking at ownership networks it may be possible to answer questions like, “who controls the world?”. In this talk, Glatterfelder explains potential power, systemic risk, pipes of control, and everything you never wanted …