"Because something is happening here,
but you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mister Jones?"
Ballad of a Thin Man
Bob Dylan

sociedad del riesgo?
nettizen on 01.23.08 @ 05:04 AM CST [link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]

* Robert Darnton: "An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris"

Standing here on the threshold of the year 2000, it appears that the road to the new millennium leads through Silicon Valley. We have entered the information age, and the future, it seems, will be determined by the media. In fact, some would claim that the modes of communication have replaced the modes of production as the driving force of the modern world. I would like to dispute that view. Whatever its value as prophecy, it will not work as history, because it conveys a specious sense of a break with the past. I would argue that every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that communication systems have always shaped events... (sigue)


nettizen on 11.24.07 @ 06:00 PM CST [link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)] [No Comments]

Home truths about telecoms
Jun 7th 2007
From The Economist print edition
Technology and society: Anthropologists investigate the use of communications technology and reach some surprising conclusions
Belle Mellor

SUCH is the social significance of mobile phones that when it comes to evaluating their use and planning new products and services, mobile operators and handset-makers cannot rely on the technology-driven, engineering mindset that has traditionally dominated the telecoms industry. Most famously, industry leaders expected people to embrace videotelephony, which flopped, but failed to anticipate the success of text-messaging. So they are turning to social scientists, and in particular to anthropologists, the better to understand how telephones are used...(sigue)


nettizen on 06.11.07 @ 07:26 PM CST [link] [Karma: -1 (+/-)] [No Comments]

* "programar humanos, socializar código"

* "comunidad? qué comunidad?"

nettizen on 05.24.07 @ 06:53 PM CST [link] [Karma: 6 (+/-)] [No Comments]

* "Constituent Imagination. Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization". Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis + David Graeber with Erika Biddle -2007-

* "The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture". Edited by Elaine Cardenas and Ellen L. Gorman -2007-

(relacionado: fuck you and your h2)

nettizen on 05.23.07 @ 07:10 PM CST [link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)] [No Comments]

yo no vine a jugar a esto (recuperado del olvido vía jesgar en /. e incluyendo los comentarios en... psicofonías)

EBay feedback: fatally flawed? Alice LaPlante (forbes.com)


nettizen on 01.07.07 @ 06:30 PM CST [link] [Karma: -2 (+/-)] [No Comments]

vía http://estalella.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/la-internet-de-los-nuevos-espectadores/

un par de ideas antes de que se pierdan en los intersticios de mis sinapsis neuronales:

- tipologías de usuarios según el uso y significado que del mismo describen y que realizan de los medios de comunicación. no hay revolución en tanto que ruptura y unicidad en sí misma sino transición y multiplicidad de acontecimientos en el tiempo y en el espacio en la que se solapan tales formas de actuación y significación. quién define las prácticas relevantes como prácticas relevantes y en qué orden de relevancia son relevantes para aquellos que las definen como tales?

- "finitud" de los medios de comunicación en relación con las expectativas de uso y de significado que ofrecen el acceso y el uso de la red y cómo, a su vez, se conforman y encajan tales expectativas en las prácticas sociales constituyendo "tipologías de usuarios según el uso y significado que del mismo describen y que realizan los medios de comunicación. no hay revolución sino transición en la que se solapan tales formas de actuación y significación".

nettizen on 12.27.06 @ 02:13 PM CST [link] [Karma: -5 (+/-)] [No Comments]