Katja Bego
The great unwinding: Charting post-COVID futures for the internet
Repost May 2020: The world has perhaps never been more globalised than under this current lockdown. For billions, the internet – in many...
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Katja Bego
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
‘Deepfake’ videos get weaponised
Repost from 2018: 2019 will be the year that a malicious ‘deepfake’ video sparks a geopolitical incident, says Katja Bego. [I am...
Katja Bego
- Nov 19, 2020
- 17 min
Ten challenges for the internet
Repost 2018: In this blog, I introduce the ten key topics that form the basis for my vision for a more inclusive, democratic and...
Katja Bego
- Nov 18, 2020
- 5 min
The year the internet goes green
Repost from 2017: If 2017 was the year we worried about the impact of the internet on our democracies, 2018 will be the year we start to...
Katja Bego
- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Splinternet
Repost from 2016: 2016 was a year dominated by seismic political events around the globe, shaking the democratic underpinnings of our...
Katja Bego
- Nov 18, 2020
- 10 min
The end of the web: get ready for the splinternet
Repost from 2017: With the global order fragmenting, cyber-security threats on the rise, and the deluge of information becoming...
Katja Bego
- Nov 15, 2020
- 6 min
When will we finally see another woman win a Nobel Prize in economics?
Repost from 2016: Women are notoriously underrepresented among Nobel laureates - particularly in the field of economics. What explains...
Katja Bego
- Nov 15, 2020
- 4 min
Pokémon Go and the marketing agencies of the augmented world
Repost from 2016: What if a coffee chain could buy the exclusive rights to turn all its stores into Pokemon gyms? [I am archiving some...
Katja Bego
- Nov 15, 2020
- 5 min
Who rules the internet? Getting under the skin of one of today's trickiest cross-border policy quest
[I am archiving some of my writing in the spirit of digital preservation - this is a repost of a blog that originally appeared on the...
Katja Bego
- Nov 14, 2020
- 7 min
What happened to Ghost Boat? Crowdsourcing the public to find a missing refugee ship
Ghost Boat brings together journalists and the public to find a missing refugee ship. What can it teach us about participatory citizen...
Katja Bego
- Nov 14, 2020
- 8 min
Crawling the dark web: the economics of online drug markets
[Post from Oct, 2015] Research into anonymous drug trades shines a light on a second generation of dark web cryptomarkets.
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