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Iran denies has plan to cut Internet access

Iran has denied online reports surfacing Tuesday that it plans to cut access to the Internet in August and replace it with a national intranet, according to a statement by the ministry of communication and ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Most people still don't trust online info

Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed the rise of social networks and mobile technology that's put the Internet at an arm's reach, day and night - yet a new study has found that people are even more distrustful of ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

S. Korea tightens monitoring of social media

South Korea has tightened monitoring of popular social networking sites to curb illicit content including an upsurge in North Korean propaganda, officials said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DARPA looking to master propaganda via 'Narrative Networks'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just don’t know whether to laugh, cry or be alarmed when hearing about what the boys in secretive back rooms are doing in the name of antiterrorism, or homeland security, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 34 | with audio podcast report

Who was afraid of Prince Rupert's dog?: The enduring power of seventeenth-century propaganda

Research by an historian at the University of Southampton has revealed how modern scholars have been led astray by a 350-year-old propaganda campaign.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Climate change not man-made, say majority of Britons: poll

Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 46

Professor tracks Columbine media discourse from 'school shooting' to 'terrorism'

Decades spent studying mass media messages of fear led noted Arizona State University scholar David Altheide to examine how the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, were originally portrayed ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 2