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Dan Gillmor column

A weekly column about technological developments, especially as they affect media, from Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight centre for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Dan aims to show how people can move from being passive consumers of media to active users. Follow him on Twitter @dangillmor

10 September 2014

  • angry computer

    The ‘Internet Slowdown’ protest for net neutrality needs to target regulators

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Websites are loading slowly today to show what a future without net neutrality looks like. But perhaps a targeted slowdown is in order

16 August 2014

  • ferguson men cell phones

    Ferguson’s citizen journalists revealed the value of an undeniable video

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Until the police stops treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy

8 August 2014

  • wiki closeup

    Go ahead: waste a day on Wikipedia. It's good for the future of humanity

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: It takes some adventure, but when you do start clicking through to other places from the sites you regularly visit, it’s not just entertainment. It’s life

29 July 2014

  • frankenstein in love

    Is the internet now just one big human experiment?

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: It's not only Facebook treating us like lab rats. Dating sites can manipulate our emotions, too – and blame it on user testing. The possibilities are endlessly scary

26 July 2014

  • eyeball computer

    Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information

16 July 2014

  • net neutrality illustration

    If the FCC is going to kill net neutrality, it'll have to get through you and me first

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Believers in an open internet just delayed a seemingly inevitable takeover from Big Telecom and its allies. Can we win the war?

4 July 2014

  • fingers red white blue

    No Facebook, no iPhone, no problem: how I declared my digital independence

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Why pledge allegiance to the united tech giants of America – and the surveillance for which they stand? I am one man, relatively invisible, with liberty and justice online

24 June 2014

  • embarrassed teen

    The 'right to be forgotten' doesn't mean we should be censoring Google results

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Everyone does stupid things. But we shouldn't all have the right to pick which parts of our history get deleted from the internet

13 June 2014

  • dont panic graffiti

    The Uber revolution is just beginning, and no cabbie protest can stop it

    Dan Gillmor in Barcelona
    Dan Gillmor: The so-called 'sharing economy' has already disrupted a lot more than traffic. If peer-to-peer startups are too cheap and easy for an eroding global middle class to ignore, what happens next?

6 June 2014

  • woman cell phone

    A government ruled for net neutrality. Too bad it wasn't your government

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: In the developing world, mobile is the internet. Here's what happens when big companies take advantage of that

2 June 2014

  • google car

    Google's driverless cars are a boon for safety and climate, but not for privacy

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: While riders will have some freedom to move, they won't have the ability to move without others watching and storing their data

13 May 2014

  • wall e

    In the future, the robots may control you, and Silicon Valley will control them

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor: Welcome to the horror show that is the 'internet of things' – hyper-intelligent software, vulnerable hardware ... and a whole new level of privacy invasion

8 May 2014

  • woman computer

    The best way to protest net neutrality's end is with an Internet-wide slowdown

    Dan Gillmor
    Dan Gillmor:It's time to take a page from the SOPA protests and show Americans what a slower Internet would really look like

13 February 2014

  • Comcast will announce on Thursday a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable worth more than $45 billion, according to published reports today.

    Comcast's takeover of Time Warner is a horrible deal for consumers

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: America already had little TV and internet competition. Unless the government vetoes this deal, there will be even less

6 February 2014

  • Protest against government surveillance in Washington DC

    Get ready: the day we fight back against mass surveillance is coming

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: Lawmakers must understand that we will no longer tolerate a surveillance state. An online protest on 11 February is a first step

24 January 2014

  • A Chinese internet user

    Will non-profit foundations step up to save the internet?

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: A few corporations and government are strangling democratized technology. We have to fight back, but it takes money

14 January 2014

  • Google, internet

    Today's ruling against net neutrality: victory for telecoms, blow for rest of us

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: The US appeals court ruling will make it more difficult for normal people and start ups to get the internet access they want

10 January 2014

  • CES

    The real CES takeaway: soon we'll be even more connected and have even less privacy

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: Tech companies promote the 'internet of things' where our homes, cars and selves are wired, but that has consequences

5 January 2014

  • NSA headquarters

    My 2014 resolution: stop my country from becoming a surveillance state

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: This will be a vital year in the fight for privacy and an open internet. All Americans should join the cause before it's too late

27 December 2013

  • A man reads newspaper coverage about the elections

    Call me an optimist, but the future of journalism isn't bleak

    Dan Gillmor

    Dan Gillmor: Even as today's major journalistic institutions struggle to adapt, media startups and investigative outlets carry the torch

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