Internet and New Media

About Facebook About Facebook

As the old concept of privacy fades and a new one arises online, what is being lost?

Dec 20, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber

It’s Our Web It’s Our Web

Stop corporate robots from taking over the Web. Freespeech.org explains how relentless marketing and data-mining puts your privacy in peril.

Dec 10, 2007 / The Nation Video

Students for a Free Pakistan Students for a Free Pakistan

Putting blogs, cellphones and text messages to work, Pakistani students around the world are rallying against Musharraf's martial law.

Nov 30, 2007 / Feature / Jayati Vora

WGA: Picket and Click It WGA: Picket and Click It

As the strike continues, Writers Guild members have turned the Internet into an organizing tool.

Nov 26, 2007 / Feature / Christopher Lisotta

The New Right-Wing Smear Machine The New Right-Wing Smear Machine

A web-savvy form of conservative propaganda, written anonymously and forwarded via e-mail, is altering the political landscape.

Oct 25, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes

Leave Us Alone Leave Us Alone

How do presidential candidates propose to protect our privacy?

Oct 4, 2007 / Ryan Thoreson

Google: Search and Data Seizure Google: Search and Data Seizure

Google's bid to acquire DoubleClick will make it the most powerful player in interactive marketing on the planet. But it poses threats to our privacy, politics and democratic aspir...

Sep 28, 2007 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester

At YearlyKos, Netroots Come of Age At YearlyKos, Netroots Come of Age

Hillary filibustered them, Obama wooed them, Edwards took them seriously. Now that the Democratic establishment is paying heed, can the netroots remain true to their egalitarian ro...

Aug 6, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber

YearlyKos Sticks With the Issues YearlyKos Sticks With the Issues

A netroots political convention in Chicago aims to transcend the horse race and let the people, not the media, frame the questions put to candidates.

Jul 18, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber and Andrea Batista Schlesinger

The Virtual Primary The Virtual Primary

MoveOn.org's issue-driven primary may not end up naming a winner, but it's shaping up to be more substantive, thoughtful and participatory than the actual presidential primary.

Jul 12, 2007 / Ari Melber

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