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Monthly: April, 2012

Liquid democracy: what will the pirates do with their influence?

Appetiser by Henrik Moltke
It all started with a bunch of loosely coordinated internet activists in conflict with the law. Their common ground was a love of computers and a hatred of the entertainment industry’s lawyers. Their critics called them pirates because they shared files illegally, but they adopted the epithet, grew more powerful, and formed [...]

dissection: ROOTS

Af Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Most people see it as a bad sign when a woman doesn’t get around to doing something about the dark, new growth that comes after bleaching her hair. These ‘roots’, as the new growth is popularly called, are traditionally seen as sloppy to look at, but nevertheless – or perhaps for this reason – they have become [...]

FoMO

By Morten Grønborg
Government leaders in western democracies work to give their citizens the greatest possible freedom of choice. The more choices we have, the more freedom we get, and the happier we become. This is the philosophy and idea on which our nations are founded.
Here at SCENARIO we are in favour of freedom of choice. [...]

HOOKED ON HALLYU

South Korea is on the move, both economically and culturally. Most recently, the nation’s pop culture, k-pop, has conquered most of Asia and is now moving into Europe. This success has been created as a result of a meticulously planned national effort in commercial cultural industry – inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which opened [...]

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