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      19 Jan 2011

      Communication Power

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      book: Communication Power - Manuel Castells on amazon.com

       

      We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The mass media (including web-based media), Manuel Castells argues, has become the space where political and business power strategies are played out; power now lies in the hands of those who understand or control communication. Over the last thirty years, Castells has emerged as one of the world's leading communications theorists. In this, his most far-reaching book for a decade, he explores the nature of power itself, in the new communications environment. His vision encompasses business, media, neuroscience, technology, and, above all, politics. His case histories include global media deregulation, the misinformation that surrounded the invasion of Iraq, environmental movements, the role of the internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control in Russia and China. In the new network society of instant messaging, social networking, and blogging--"mass self-communication"--politics is fundamentally media politics. This fact is behind a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy that challenges the meaning of democracy in much of the world. Deeply researched, far-reaching in scope, and incisively argued, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

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      - #wikileaks on twitter

       

      video: Castells' keynote at oxford for the release of his new book, "Communication Power" on vimeo.com

       

       

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      20 Mar 2010

      We all need to tap into a collective sense of social fabric

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      ok. From a Venetian point of view this kind of ideas inspire a sarcastic smile. But: what we need now is this: different perspectives on reality / [it] ok. Da un punto di vista veneto queste idee ispirano un certo sorriso sarcastico. Però. Quello che serve ora è questo: sguardi diversi della realtà. txt: Jane McGonigal at TED: Gaming can make a better world
      "Reality is broken," says IFTF's Jane McGonigal. "And we all need to tap into a collective sense of urgent optimism—as well as the ability and capacity to act now—to make the future."
      [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM]
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      17 Mar 2010

      The Internet of things

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      video+txt: IBMSocialMedia on youtube.com
      When we talk about a smarter planet, you can say that it has two dimensions. One is to be more efficient, be less destructive, to connect different aspects of life which do affect each other in more conscience and deliberate and intelligent ways. But the other is also to generate fundamentally new insights, new activity, new forms of social relations. So you could look at the planet as an information, creation and transmission system, and the universe was hearing its information but we werent. But increasingly now we can, early days, baby steps days, but we can actually begin to hear the planet talking to us.
      [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEbMV295Kk]
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      13 Mar 2010

      Internet as a tool (of freedom)

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      txt: March 11, 2010: Lawrence Lessig speech at Italian Parliament: Internet is Freedom [blip.tv ?posts_id=3351759&dest=-1]
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      12 Mar 2010

      A random place in the world: Carnarvon Rd, Hong Kong

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      Google maps is an impressive way to look the world. Like when the childs point a finger random on the globe, and dream about it. [googlemaps http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=it&geocode=&q=...,12.392578&sspn=16.458104,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hong+Kong&layer=c&cbll=22.298978,114.173659&panoid=wzNIV23efnG8MhKFy6dKEw&cbp=13,203.24,,0,6.9&ll=22.396428,114.109497&spn=0,359.951763&z=14&output=svembed&w=500&h=400]
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      27 Feb 2010

      Like a customer (with rights that are respected)

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      txt: Big change in the tech world - Dave Winer www.scripting.com
      Think about how you're treated by airlines. By insurance companies. If you have to go to a hospital. That's the kind of relationship you have with Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. Sooner or later there will be a massive oil spill or a massive network-wide security breach. Expect these companies to be every bit as bad as the ones in other industries. Probably worse because they've come so far without much oversight or scrutiny. Recently Google was given permission to trade energy. Who are these companies? We have no idea. If you want to know what you can do, great -- there are things you can do. Buy your own services and put your content in places where you are treated like a customer with rights that are respected. That's still possible. In many industries it's no longer possible, but you can get that kind of service on the Internet now, but you have to pay for it.
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      2 Feb 2010

      An adventure of the eye and mind

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      Nelle osservazioni di Jonathan Jones sul telescopio Hubble come avventura dell'occhio e del pensiero ritrovo un filo con quello che pensavo girando per Venezia questa estate. L'arte contemporanea mi interessa se è un modo di vedere per conoscere. Internet mi interessa se - oltre ad essere aiuto nella vita quotidiana - allarga il pensiero. L'arte contemporanea, internet per sè non mi entusiasmano più. Mi sa che sto invecchiando. Va assolutamente bene così. txt: Art: the final frontier - guardian.co.uk
      The Hubble space telescope has brought about a visual revolution, more significant than any recent work of art in transforming the way we see ourselves and the cosmos. And shouldn't we be starting to admit that it was more important than Apollo? The moon missions were based on Newtonian science and confirmed a Newtonian model of the universe (planets in orbit, trajectories, everything very mechanical). The Hubble has revealed to the eye a cosmos that is far more poetic, mysterious, and fluid.
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      Source: Hubblesite.org
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      28 Dec 2009

      2000-2009: A downhill decade (and now?)

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      txt: Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years - PEW
      The internet – perhaps the seminal technological development of recent decades – continues to be widely seen in a favorable light. About two-thirds (65%) say the internet has been a change for the better, while just 16% say it has been a change for the worse; 11% say it hasn’t made much difference while 8% are unsure. This largely mirrors the balance of opinion at the close of the 1990s – the decade that saw the widespread adoption of the web. In 1999, 69% called the internet a change for the better and 18% called it a change for the worse.
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      15 Dec 2009

      34Gb of what?

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      via Roger Bohn's Blog.

      Of course, gross averages like this hide a multitude of differences. For example, TV consumption among teenagers is lower than among old people. (Excuse me, “seniors” — since I’m getting up there myself I don’t need euphemisms.) About half of the 34 GB come from computer game playing, but gaming is highly diverse. 80% of us play games in some form, but most of the bytes come from high-end PCs with powerful graphics cards and dedicated players. And so forth.
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      15 Sep 2008

      Venice Biennale Architecture: Out Where?

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      [links]+[txt] Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition - Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons - www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects - Venice Biennale: The highlights - www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which is about you have, with the route ending, happily enough, in paradise (shown) - Out Here: Disquieted Architecture - www.e-flux.com: architecture in a contemporary landscape marked by questions of ephemerality, transience, frequent paradoxes and continuous movements in time and space. - Hadid's Space-Age Sculptures Land in Venice Villa for Biennale - www.bloomberg.com: Two sculptures of flamboyant and curvaceous metal have taken over the Hall of Giants near Venice. - S'pore ideas bloom in Venice - www.straitstimes.com (singapore): A cacophony of sounds heralded the opening of the Singapore Pavilion
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