Obama 2014: Not your year (so far)

President Obama will deliver Tuesday’s State of the Union address facing deep skepticism from the American public about his leadership, according to a new NBC-News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey shows a 51 percent majority of the public disapprove Obama’s job performance, compared to 43 percent who approve. Not only […] Read more »

The Age of ‘Infopolitics’

… What we need is a concept of infopolitics that would help us understand the increasingly dense ties between politics and information. Infopolitics encompasses not only traditional state surveillance and data surveillance, but also “data analytics” (the techniques that enable marketers at companies like Target to detect, for instance, if […] Read more »

Obama’s NSA Speech Has Little Impact on Skeptical Public

President Obama’s speech on Friday outlining changes to the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone and internet data did not register widely with the public. Half say they have heard nothing at all about his  proposed changes to the NSA, and another 41% say they heard only a little bit. […] Read more »