People in the US want Justin Bieber deported so badly that they are getting their government involved. Within 72 hours, 100,000 signatures collected following the ‘We The People” petition. The petition was created by a 24-year old guy named Roger Skrzynski. In a statement he said the following: “I’m just listening on the radio about …
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Yangjuan Hu – Alone Together
I love the word “alone together”. It seems like the answer I’ve looking forward for a long time. When our question today appeared on the slide, I found what I wrote for the first question might be a better answer to this one. It’s about a Chinese online movement to save the lost children, as …
Jete Laanemägi – Make everything better with only one click
Everyone knows the simple truth that “you do not press the red button”. Otherwise an atomic bomb will be dropped from God-knows-where and blow us all up. Right? Here’s a button that does the opposite: http://make-everything-ok.com/ . Press it!
María Hernández – helping the world with a simple click
Nowadays, thanks to the internet, there are many initiatives which allow us to participate in a project with people from all over the world. Due to all these initiatives we can create the illusion of being part of a group even if we are just clicking a button in our computer. One example of this …
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I Will 2013- Tahdon 2013 – Tiiu Särkijärvi
My topic relates to Lauri’s topic of kansalaisaloite.fi and could be an example of it. One of the suggestions for new legislation in Finland in 2013 was I Will 2013 (Tahdon 2013), which was about equal marriage law concerning same-sex couples. The initiative gathered 166 851 signatures and was passed to the Finnish Parliament. I Will …
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Let’s play a game tonight…
At first I would like to mention that I believe the point of this task is not information can I retrieve about myself and how, rather than how much information can the others derive by me if start searching about me. So let’s rock and roll.Somebody put something in my drink (Ramones are playing on …
Alone together: making new regulations in Finland / – Lauri E.
One of the most interesting cross-connetion between social media and Finnish democratic system has been the Kansalaisaloite.fi -internet-service (http://www.kansalaisaloite.fi), which gives people the possibility to participate in the democratic law making process by proposing new laws & regulations and changes in the old ones – via the Internet. The service was launched in 2013 and …
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Who am I? – Lauri E.
I write my name to the empty search box, hit the search button, and get the ten most relevant hits that might uncover who I am. I start browsing through the links, but for a short period of time they do not make any sense: the preview images and the links seem to contain two …
Googling myself
I have to admit it, I’ve done this before. So, obviously there were not many surprising results of this experiment. The first ten most popular hits include links to my social media profiles which is of course understandable. Other hits lead to an online book shop (I’ve edited a book), to student organization websites (I’ve …
Google google on the wall who am I in this Digital World
Okay so not fair because I actually have had a chance to edit my search results before I did this task. I’ve deleted a site that I didn’t want to be found on my google search but obviously I didn’t come empty handed out of this assignment. So now, who am I. Okay instantly I …
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Why I Heart My Media 