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Bookreview: Communication Power

Where lies the power in network society? That’s the question Manuel Castells tries to answer in his book ‘Communication Power’. An interesting and relevant question considering our changing society. According to Castells, power relationships operate in networks. In his...
By Mathijs Voordenberg on 10/02/10 Comments Off on Bookreview: Communication Power

Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

I have placed Web 2.0 and social networking platforms as ‘media objects’ within a framework of Manuel Castells in the context of the network society. What interests me in particular is the tension Castells described, between mass communication and...
By Radmila Radojevic on 10/16/09 Comments Off on Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Isn’t it ironic that we’re trying to reduce the digital inequality and poverty with ICT, while it is the ICT that caused and augments this digital divide? We’re using technology to solve the problems it has caused…
By ellen sluis on 10/13/09 Comments Off on One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Manuel Castells in my research of cyberactivism

For the past decade, cybersphere has played an important role for activism(as cyberactivism). The 30 November (N30) protesters against the WTO meeting in Seattle in 1999 denoted the significant use of the Web to organize, publicise and mobilize. As...
By Yu-Fen Chen on 10/13/09 Comments Off on Manuel Castells in my research of cyberactivism

Implications of Twitter: Crime 2.0

Sept. 30, 2008. White man about 20 years of age, wearing a blue shirt, yellow vest, safety goggle and a respirator mask. An ordinary road-worker going to work you might think. No you’re wrong, this is the story of...
By Tim van Essen on 10/11/09 Comments Off on Implications of Twitter: Crime 2.0

The Twitter Society

Twitter has been studied by Akshay Java et al. (2007), in their research paper "Why we twitter" they explain the different kind of twitter users. They've looked at every post made on twitter for 2 months in 2007. This...
By Dorris de Heij on 10/11/08 1