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Second Life meets FaceBook: Why do we like being part of a virtual community?

Even though Levy‘s writing style is not my favorite (and that is probably because I am getting used to the Dutch style, very to-the-point), I still can handle it (probably because, in the end, I’m Italian and his mother...
By Marta Colpani on 10/13/09 2
Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture

Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture

1. Contemporary media are characterized by a stammering stream of an ever growing schizophrenic ‘logic of addition’. 2. ‘Old’ mass media like television and cinema are not dead but undead. 3. Schizophrenia points to clinical and critical symptoms of...
By Patricia Pisters on 05/25/08 2