Hossein Derakhshan

The Web We Have to Save

The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail…

Rouhani’s Last Blow

The moderate Iranian president asserts himself evermore as the next Supreme…

Why Is Social News Bad for Democracy

Consumption of news has become a social performance for the first…

How Fake Is Our Debate On ‘Fake News’?

Piqd – Danah Boyd perfectly shows what is missing most from Silicon Valley: sociologists. Her short article in Backchannel is an invitation to think and look at the structures which produce and reproduce existing technologies. Trying to map the popular debate on…