On revolution
Tonight, Egypt’s 30-year-old regime fell. The hundreds of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square showed the rest of the world what persistent, peaceful protest can really achieve – in a short space...
View ArticleIntimacy: Version 4.0
Plenty has been written about our loss of social cohesion due to the Internet (see James Katz) and how mobile phone technology has contributed to blunting our social competencies (see Hans Geser). Like...
View ArticleThe death of Fame: anonymity in the age of digital activism
There are two crucial ingredients of successful digital activism and online civic participation that receive little attention: fame and anonymity. Last week I was having beers with some of Mexico...
View ArticleIntroducing the European School of Social Imagination
When it comes to imagination and its social implications, both empowering and dangerous, few are as experienced as Franco “Bifo” Berardi. As a media activist, the Italian philosopher and agitator was...
View ArticleThe World Wide Mind
For an author with cochlear implants, the merger of computer and brain, bytes and thoughts, has never felt far-fetched. In a brilliant new book, Michael Chorost makes his case: by making the internet a...
View Article10 Charts About Sex
This was one of the first infographics ever made: Later remembered as “the map that made a nation cry”, it depicts Napoleon’s failed invasion of Russia in 1812. The wide tan swath shows his Grande...
View ArticleDesperately Seeking Serendipity
May 12, 2001 – I’m giving the closing keynote at CHI 2011 this afternoon. I’m thrilled to have the chance to share some thoughts with some of the smartest researchers and practitioners working on...
View ArticleMalta holds its breath on the day of the divorce referendum
Today, after weeks of a vociferous electoral campaign, the Mediterranean country of Malta, now anxiously quiet, holds its breath. Today is the day the inhabitants of the 300km2 archipelago located...
View ArticleThe Faux-Vintage Photo
Nathan Jurgenson is working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and wrote this essay for his Cyborgology blog.Find the original post here. It is replicated on OWNI with the...
View ArticleThe End of the World: The State vs. the Internet
A while back, I thought I saw a tweet from Evgeny Morozov that said something to the effect: “You don’t just go from printing press to Renaissance to iPad; there are revolutions and wars in between you...
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