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1 June 2008
Prospect
Jonathan Zittrain writes: 'The openness of 'generative' technologies like the PC and the internet has led to great innovations - but also to an upward spiral of viruses, worms and spam. Such bad code threatens to derail the internet [...]'
24 May 2008
The Telegraph
The problem with the net: it's you, reader
Julian Dibbell reviews The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain: '"We need a latter-day Manhattan project," Zittrain writes, "not to build a bomb but to design the tools and conventions by which to continually defuse one"'
22 May 2008
Times Online
Sunderland is streets ahead for broadband
Victoria Nash on the geographic digital divide in the UK
21 May 2008
The Times Literary Supplement
Coverage of Jonathan Zittrain's new book: 'Zittrain, by contrast, is a Romantic about the "Live Free or Die" ethos of original internet culture, while doubling as a superb technical master of its legal and manufacturing history'
13 May 2008
Oxford Internet Institute
OII News: Government on the Internet Report, Webcasts, eXperimental Computer Lab, Students
'After ten years of uncoordinated growth, the Government does not know exactly how many websites it operates': new Public Accounts Committee Report, webcasts (social networking, Jonathan Zittrain), the eXperimental Computer Lab (OxLab), Student Diary
12 May 2008
China Daily
Gadgets threaten Internet's future, says academic
Jonathan Zittrain's book: 'The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book'
9 May 2008
Oxford Times
Walking on wild side of the Web
The Internet is so ubiquitous that its users take it for granted. But in Prof Zittrain's view it is surprisingly delicate and, with no one even recognising it, the Internet is under threat. In fact it is already well on the road to ruin [...]
8 May 2008
Washington Post
Academic says gadgets threaten Internet's future
Academic says gadgets threaten Internet's future
4 May 2008
The Sunday Times
A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid
Jonathan Zittrain writes: 'Embarrassing images can find their way onto the web all too easily, ruining the lives of the people depicted, but a "privacy tag" could prevent it'
1 May 2008
The Guardian
Are gadgets killing the internet?
Coverage of Jonathan Zittrain's new book: 'The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It': '"Tethered appliances" are stifling the innovation that led to the rise of the world wide web, argues academic and author Jonathan Zittrain'
1 May 2008
Sky News
Warnings Over The Future Of The Web
Jonathan Zittrain's new book: 'The Future of the Internet': 'Professor Jonathan Zittrain fears web products which can be controlled by manufacturers, such as iPhones and Xboxes, could stifle the innovation that has made the internet a positive force'
28 April 2008
Financial Times
Inherent risks of a locked-down cyberspace
'In Zittrain's view, open technologies lead to open societies. Wikipedia, and the other participative internet media that have turned formerly passive consumers into active participants, are the natural offspring of the open internet'
27 April 2008
The Sunday Times
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
'What makes the internet so valuable, says Zittrain, a professor of internet governance at Oxford University, is its "generative" nature - a handy term that encapsulates its open, anarchic and innovative essence'
27 April 2008
National Public Radio
The Internet is a happy accident of the 20th century. But law professor Jonathan Zittrain wonders whether the net can survive in a culture of freedom and innovation. Andrea Seabrook talks to Zittrain about his new book The Future of the Internet
24 April 2008
BBC News
Stark warning for internet's future
Jonathan Zittrain, one of the world's leading academics on the impact of the net, is warning that the future is potentially bleak. His book, The Future of the Internet: And How To Stop It, highlights key concerns about the direction of online society
18 April 2008
National Public Radio
Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, is a clarion call to protect the freedom of the Internet from those who would stifle it for the sake of security and reliability
17 April 2008
The New York Observer
Possible Downside of IPhones: Scary Dystopia!
In a new book about the problems implicit in the way the Internet is developing, The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It, Oxford professor Jonathan Zittrain writes that the Internet is threatened [...]
14 April 2008
O'Reilly Radar
Book review: 'The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)'
'[...] your education is stifled until you have absorbed the insights offered by comprehensive thinkers such as Jonathan Zittrain, who presents in this brand new book some critical and welcome anchor points for discussions of Internet policy'
11 April 2008
Oxford Internet Institute
New project on the 'World Wide Web of Humanities', summary of the OII / Ofcom Social Networking Conference, Jonathan Zittrain book launches, eResearch08 Conference, Student Diary (Berlin Trip / re:publica08)
10 April 2008
Oxford Internet Institute
New book from Professor Jonathan Zittrain: 'The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It'
This extraordinary book from Oxford Professor Jonathan Zittrain explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity - and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success.
9 April 2008
Center for Social Media (School of Communication, American University)
Netizenship: The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
Are we headed backwards, to a media world that looks more like cable than the Internet? For Jonathan Zittrain, the iPhone is the enemy, Wikipedia is our friend, and our laptops are battle zones in a new war
8 April 2008
Marie Claire
Couples admit spying on each other
Coverage of the OII project: 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age'
8 April 2008
The Telegraph
Couples admit to 'snooping' on each other
Coverage of the OII project: 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age'
8 April 2008
vnunet.com
Couples turn to online espionage
Coverage of the OII project: 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age'
8 April 2008
Guardian News Blog
Have you spied on your partner?
Coverage of the OII project: 'Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age'
Last updated on: 21 May 2013
