The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.