This upcoming Tuesday, 15th of May, Ms Amelia´s Andersdotter´s office is organising a book launch inside the European Parliament. The book ´SHARING: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age´ is written by a Net culture scholar Philippe Aigrain, with contributions from his daughter, Suzanne Aigrain. As the title of the book suggests, it describes file sharing of digital cultural… Read more →
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European Parliament produced fruitful discussion on the Internet issues and in particularly ACTA
The first meeting was held on Tuesday, based on ´New forms of online advertising´, as current trademark laws are complex and impose particular burden on SME´s (Small-medium enterprises). European Commission is proposing to harmonise trademark regulations acrossEurope, between different national laws. So that small and medium size companies could take full advantage of access to the global market that the… Read more →
Public Affairs through Facebook and other Social Media
As was mentioned in the previous blog, European Parliament’s facebook page is a brilliant tool. Because it provides resource of reference to all 754 MEP social media profiles. This includes personal facebook profiles, facebook pages, and twitter accounts. The question is by how much will social media change how Public Affairs works’. If people can contact their MEP through twitter… Read more →
Campaign 2012 on Social Media
United States presidential campaign is about to swing into the higher gear. This will intensify the use of Social Media within the Public Affairs sphere to the new level. Social Media in its current form is a much different phenomenon to the mass communication tools that were available before the onslaught of the World Wide Web. Internet has become one… Read more →