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Just had the opportunity to pull our Uganda team together for a quick prayer before they headed to the airport.  Can't wait to see how God uses them!  I'm so proud of these guys.</p>
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Sticking My Neck Out (Execut]]></description>
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<h2>Sticking My Neck Out (Executive Summary)</h2>
<p>I think that participants in many technology-enthusiastic movements which carry the term "social" would do well to learn some social science. Furthermore, my guess is that ethnographic disciplines are very well-suited to the task of teaching participants in these movements something about <em>social</em> groups.</p>
<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
<p>Despite the potentially provocative title and my explicitly stating a position, I mostly wish to think out loud about different things which have been on my mind for a while.</p>
<p>I'm not an "expert" in this field. I'm just a social scientist and an ethnographer who has been observing a lot of things online. I do know that there are many experts who have written many great books about similar issues. What I'm saying here might not seem new. But I'm using my blog as a way to at least write down some of the things I have in mind and, hopefully, discuss these issues thoughtfully with people who care.</p>
<p>Also, this will not be a guide on "what to do to be social-savvy." Books, seminars, and workshops on this specific topic abound. But my attitude is that every situation needs to be treated in its own context, that cookie-cutter solutions often fail. So I would advise people interested in this set of issues to train themselves in at least a little bit of social science, even if much of the content of the training material seems irrelevant. Discuss things with a social scientist, hire a social scientist in your business, take a course in social science, and don't focus on advice but on the broad picture. Really.</p>
<h2>Clarification</h2>
<p>Though they are all different, enthusiastic participants in "social web," "social marketing," "social media," and other "social things online" do have some commonalities. At the risk of angering some of them, I'm lumping them all together as "social * enthusiasts." One thing I like about the term "enthusiast" is that it can apply to both professional and amateurs, to geeks and dabblers, to full-timers and part-timers. My target isn't a specific group of people. I just observed different things in different contexts.</p>
<h2>Links</h2>
<h3>Shameless Self-Promotion</h3>
<p>A few links from my own blog, for context (and for easier retrieval):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://enkerli.wordpress.com/2005/03/31/social-butterfly-effect-more-than-a-silly-pun/">“Social Butterfly Effect”: More Than a Silly Pun? </a></li>
<li><a href="http://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/swiss-smile/">Swiss Made Smiling </a></li>
<li><a title="Permanent Link to Technology Adoption and Active Reading" rel="bookmark" href="../2008/05/21/technology-adoption-and-active-reading/">Technology Adoption and Active Reading</a></li>
<li><a title="Permanent Link to Handhelds for the Rest of Us?" rel="bookmark" href="../2008/05/19/handhelds-for-the-rest-of-us/">Handhelds for the Rest of Us?</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Shameless Cross-Promotion</h3>
<p>A few links from other blogs, to hopefully expand context (and for easier retrieval):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cluetrain.com/">the cluetrain manifesto</a></li>
<li><a href="http://158.130.17.5/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001961.html">Raising standards -- by lowering them </a></li>
<li><a title="Permanent Link to Web 2.0 != AJAX" rel="bookmark" href="http://laurentlasalle.com/2008/05/15/web-20-ajax/"> Web 2.0 != AJAX</a></li>
<li><a href="http://zeroseconde.blogspot.com/2005/03/lautorit-cognitive-sur-internet.html">Qu'est ce que l'autorité cognitive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://zeroseconde.blogspot.com/2006/09/les-6-cultures-dinternet.html">Les 6 cultures d'Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/05/21/NoteToWeb20CompaniesEarlyAdoptersAreNotTheMassMarket.aspx">Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market</a><span class="diigo-link-opts"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nitibhan.com/perspective_20/2008/05/the-emperor-has.html?cid=115380184">Perspective 2.0: The emperor has designer clothes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://martinlessard.blogspot.com/2007/02/dissemination-of-knowledge.html">Dissemination of Knowledge</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Some raw notes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Insight</li>
<li>Cluefulness</li>
<li>Openness</li>
<li>Freedom</li>
<li>Transparency</li>
<li>Unintended uses</li>
<li>Constructivism</li>
<li>Empowerment</li>
<li>Disruptive technology</li>
<li>Innovation</li>
<li>Creative thinking</li>
<li>Critical thinking</li>
<li>Technology adoption</li>
<li>Early adopters</li>
<li>Late adopters</li>
<li>Forced adoption</li>
<li>OLPC XO</li>
<li>OLPC XOXO</li>
<li>Attitudes to change</li>
<li>Conservatism</li>
<li>Luddites</li>
<li>Activism</li>
<li>Impatience</li>
<li>Windmills and shelters</li>
<li>Niche thinking</li>
<li>Geek culture</li>
<li>Groupthink</li>
<li>Idea horizon</li>
<li>Intersubjectivity</li>
<li>Influence</li>
<li>Sphere of influence</li>
<li>Influence network</li>
<li>Social butterfly effect</li>
<li>Cog in a wheel</li>
<li>Social networks</li>
<li>Acephalous groups</li>
<li>Ego-based groups</li>
<li>Non-hierarchical groups</li>
<li>Mutual influences</li>
<li>Network effects</li>
<li>Risk-taking</li>
<li>Low-stakes</li>
<li>Trial-and-error</li>
<li>Transparency</li>
<li>Ethnography</li>
<li>Epidemiology of ideas</li>
<li>Neural networks</li>
<li>Cognition and communication</li>
<li>Wilson and Sperber</li>
<li><em>Relevance</em></li>
<li>Global</li>
<li>Glocal</li>
<li>Regional</li>
<li>City-State</li>
<li>Fluidity</li>
<li>Consensus culture</li>
<li>Organic relationships</li>
<li>Establishing rapport</li>
<li>Buzzwords</li>
<li>Viral</li>
<li>Social</li>
<li>Meme</li>
<li>Memetic marketplace</li>
<li>Meta</li>
<li>Target audience</li>
</ul>
<h2>Let's Give This a Try</h2>
<p>The Internet is, simply, a network. Sure, technically it's a meta-network, a network of networks. But that is pretty much irrelevant, in social terms, as most networks may be analyzed at different levels as containing smaller networks or being parts of larger networks. The fact remains that the 'Net is pretty easy to understand, sociologically. It's nothing new, it's just a textbook example of something social scientists have been looking at for a good long time.</p>
<p>Though the Internet mostly connects computers (in many shapes or forms, many of them being "devices" more than the typical "personal computer"), the impact of the Internet is through human actions, behaviours, thoughts, and feelings. Sure, we can talk <em>ad nauseam</em> about the technical aspects of the Internet, but these topics have been covered a lot in the last fifteen years of intense Internet growth and a lot of people seem to be ready to look at other dimensions.</p>
<p>The category of "people who are online" has expanded greatly, in different steps. Here, Martin Lessard's description of the Internet's Six Cultures (<a href="http://zeroseconde.blogspot.com/2006/09/les-6-cultures-dinternet.html">Les 6 cultures d'Internet</a>) is really worth a read. Martin's post is in French but we also had <a href="http://martinlessard.blogspot.com/2007/02/dissemination-of-knowledge.html">a blog discussion in English</a>, about it. Not only are there more people online but those "people who are online" have become much more diverse in several respects. At the same time, there are clear patterns on who "online people" are and there are clear differences in uses of the Internet.</p>
<p>Groups of human beings are the very basic object of social science. Diversity in human groups is the very basis for ethnography. Ethnography is simply the description of ("writing about") human groups conceived as diverse ("peoples"). As simple as ethnography can be, it leads to a very specific approach to society which is very compatible with all sorts of things relevant to "social * enthusiasts" on- and offline.</p>
<p>While there are many things online which may be described as "media," comparing the Internet to "The Mass Media" is often the best way to miss "what the Internet is all about." Sure, the Internet isn't about anything (about from connecting computers which, in turn, connect human beings). But to get actual insight into the 'Net, one probably needs to free herself/himself of notions relating to "The Mass Media." Put bluntly, McLuhan was probably a very interesting person and some of his ideas remain intriguing but fallacies abound in his work and the best thing to do with his ideas is to go beyond them.</p>
<p>One of my favourite examples of the overuse of "media"-based concepts is the issue of influence. In blogging, podcasting, or selling, the notion often is that, on the Internet as in offline life, "some key individuals or outlets are influential and these are the people by whom or channels through which ideas are disseminated." Hence all the Technorati rankings and other "viewer statistics." Old techniques and ideas from the times of radio and television expansion are used because it's easier to think through advertising models than through radically new models. This is, in fact, when I tend to bring back my explanation of the "<a href="http://enkerli.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/swiss-smile/">social butterfly effect</a>": quite frequently, "influence" online isn't through specific individuals or outlets but even when it is, those people are influential through virtue of connecting to <em>diverse groups</em>, not by the number of people they know. There are ways to analyze those connections but "measuring impact" is eventually missing the point.</p>
<address>Yes, there is an obvious "qual. vs. quant." angle, here. A major distinction between non-ethnographic and ethnographic disciplines in social sciences is that non-ethnographic disciplines tend to be overly constrained by "quantitative analysis." Ultimately, any analysis is "qualitative" but "quantitative methods" are a very small and often limiting subset of the possible research and analysis methods available. Hence the constriction and what some ethnographers may describe as "myopia" on the part of non-ethnographers.</address>
<h2>Gone Viral</h2>
<p>The term "viral" is used rather frequently by "social * enthusiasts" online. I happen to think that it's a fairly fitting term, even though it's used more by extension than by literal meaning. To me, it relates rather directly to Dan Sperber's "epidemiological" treatment of culture (see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Culture-Naturalistic-Dan-Sperber/dp/0631200452/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1211754517&#38;sr=1-3">Explaining Culture</a>) which may itself be perceived as resembling Dawkins's well-known "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary-Introduction/dp/0199291152/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1211754586&#38;sr=1-1">selfish gene</a>" ideas made popular by different online observers, but with something which I perceive to be (to use simple semiotic/semiological concepts) more "motivated" than the more "arbitrary" connections between genetics and ideas. While Sperber could hardly be described as an ethnographer, his anthropological connections still make some of his work compatible with ethnographic perspectives.</p>
<p>Analysis of the spread of ideas does correspond fairly closely with the spread of viruses, especially given the nature of contacts which make transmission possible. One needs not do much to spread a virus or an idea. This virus or idea may find "fertile soil" in a given social context, depending on a number of factors. Despite the disadvantages of extending analogies and core metaphors too far, the type of ecosystem/epidemiology analysis of social systems embedded in uses of the term "viral" do seem to help some specific people make sense of different things which happen online. In "viral marketing," the type of informal, invisible, unexpected spread of recognition through word of mouth does relate somewhat to the spread of a virus. Moreover, the metaphor of "viral marketing" is useful in thinking about the lack of control the professional marketer may have on how her/his product is perceived. In this context, the term "viral" seems useful.</p>
<h2>The Social</h2>
<p>While "viral" seems appropriate, the even more simple "social" often seems inappropriately used. It's not a ranty attitude which makes me comment negatively on the use of the term "social." In fact, I don't really care about the use of the term itself. But I do notice that use of the term often obfuscates what is the obvious social character of the Internet.</p>
<p>To a social scientist, anything which involves groups is by definition "social." Of course, some groups and individuals are more gregarious than others, some people are taken to be very sociable, and some contexts are more conducive to <em>heightened </em>social interactions. But social interactions happen in any context.<br />
As an example I used (in French) in reply to <a href="http://laurentlasalle.com/2008/05/15/web-20-ajax/">this blog post</a>, something as common as standing in line at a grocery store is representative of social behaviour and can be analyzed in social terms. Any Web page which is accessed by anyone is "social" in the sense that it establishes some link, however tenuous and asymmetric, between at least two individuals (someone who created the page and the person who accessed that page). Sure, it sounds like the minimal definition of communication (sender, medium/message, receiver). But what most people who talk about communication seem to forget (unlike <a href="http://gazingwestward.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/jakobson-roman-closing-statement-linguistics-and-poetics-from-innis-semiotics-anthology/">Jakobson</a>), is that <em>all communication is social</em>.</p>
<p>Sure, putting a comment form on a Web page facilitates a basic social interaction, making the page "more social" in the sense of "making that page easier to use explicit social interaction." And, of course, adding some features which facilitate the act of sharing data with one's personal contacts is a step above the contact form in terms of making certain type of social interaction straightforward and easy. But, contrary to what Google Friend Connect <a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/home/moreinfo">implies</a>, adding those features doesn't suddenly make the site social. The site itself isn't really social and, assuming some people visited it, there was already a social dimension to it. I'm not nitpicking on word use. I'm saying that using "social" in this way may blind some people to social dimensions of the Internet. And the consequences can be pretty harsh, in some cases, for overlooking how social the 'Net is.</p>
<p>Something similar may be said about the "Social Web," one of the many definitions of "Web 2.0" which is used in some contexts (mostly, the cynic would say, "to make some tool appear 'new and improved'"). The Web as a whole was "social" by definition. Granted, it lacked the ease of social interaction afforded such venerable Internet classics as Usenet and email. But it was already making some modes of social interaction easier to perceive. No, this isn't about "it's all been done." It's about being oblivious to the social potential of tools which already existed. True, the period in Internet history known as "Web 2.0" (and the onset of the  <a href="http://zeroseconde.blogspot.com/2006/09/les-6-cultures-dinternet.html">Internet's sixth culture</a>) may be associated with new social phenomena. But there is little evidence that the association is causal, that new online tools and services created a new reality which suddenly made it possible for people to become social online. This is one reason I like <a href="http://zeroseconde.blogspot.com/2006/09/les-6-cultures-dinternet.html">Martin Lessard's post</a> so much. Instead of postulating the existence of a brand new phenomenon, he talks about the conditions for some changes in both Internet use and the form the Web has taken.</p>
<p>Again, this isn't about terminology <em>per se</em>. Substitute "friendly" for "social" and similar issues might come up (friendship and friendliness being disconnected from the social processes which underline them).</p>
<h2>Adoptive Parents</h2>
<p>Many "social * enthusiasts" are interested in "adoption." They want their "things" to be adopted. This is especially visible among marketers but even in social media there's an issue of "getting people on board." And some people, especially those <em>without</em> social science training, seem to be looking for a recipe.</p>
<p>Problem is, there probably is <em>no</em> such thing as a recipe for technology adoption.</p>
<p>Sure, some marketing practises from the offline world may work online. Sometimes, adapting a strategy from the material world to the Internet is very simple and the Internet version may be more effective than the offline version. But it doesn't mean that there is such a thing as a recipe. It's a matter of either having some people who "have a knack for this sort of things" (say, based on sensitivity to what goes on online) or based on pure luck. Or it's a matter of measuring success in different ways. But it isn't based on a recipe. Especially not in the Internet sphere which is changing so rapidly (despite some remarkably stable features).</p>
<p>Again, I'm partial to contextual approaches ("fully-customized solutions," if you really must). Not just because I think there are people who can do this work very efficiently. But because I observe that "recipes" do little more than sell "best-selling books" and other items.</p>
<p>So, what can we, as social scientists, say about "adoption?" That technology is adopted based on the <em>perceived</em> fit between the tools and people's needs/wants/goals/preferences. Not the simple "the tool will be adopted if there's a need." But a <em>perception</em> that there might be a fit between an amorphous set of social actors (people) and some well-defined tools ("technologies"). Recognizing this fit is extremely difficult and forcing it is extremely expensive (not to mention completely unsustainable). But social scientists do help in finding ways to adapt tools to different social situations.</p>
<p>Especially ethnographers. Because instead of surveys and focus groups, we challenge assumptions about what "must" fit. Our heads and books are full of examples which sound, in retrospect, as common sense but which had stumped major corporations with huge budgets. (Ask me about McDonald's in Brazil or browse a cultural anthropology textbook, for more information.)</p>
<p>Recently, while reading about issues surrounding the OLPC's original XO computer, I was glad to read the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>John Heskett once said that the critical difference between invention and innovation was its mass adoption by users. (Niti Bhan <a href="http://www.nitibhan.com/perspective_20/2008/05/the-emperor-has.html?cid=115380184">The emperor has designer clothes</a>)</p></blockquote>
<p>Not that this is a new idea, for social scientists. But I was glad that the social dimension of technology adoption was recognized.</p>
<p>In marketing and design spheres especially, people often think of innovation as individualized. While some individuals are particularly adept at leading inventions to mass adoption (Steve Jobs being a textbook example), "adoption comes from the people." Yes, groups of people may be manipulated to adopt something "despite themselves." But that kind of forced adoption is still dependent on a broad acceptance, by "the people," of even the basic forms of marketing. This is very similar to the simplified version of the concept of "hegemony," so common in both social sciences and humanities. In a hegemony (as opposed to a totalitarian regime), no coercion is necessary because the logic of the system has been internalized by people who are affected by it. Simple, but effective.</p>
<p>In online culture, adept marketers are highly valued. But I'm quite convinced that pre-online marketers already knew that they had to "learn society first." One thing with almost anything happening online is that "the society" is boundless. Country boundaries usually make very little sense and the social rules of every local group will leak into even the simplest occasion. Some people seem to assume that the end result is a cultural homogenization, thereby not necessitating any adaptation besides the move from "brick and mortar" to online. Others (or the same people, actually) want to protect their "business models" by restricting tools or services based on country boundaries. In my mind, both attitudes are ineffective and misleading.</p>
<h2>Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child</h2>
<p>I think the <a href="http://cluetrain.org"><em>Cluetrain Manifesto</em></a> can somehow be summarized through concepts of freedom, openness, and transparency. These are all very obvious (in French, the book title is something close to "the evident truths manifesto"). They're also all very social.</p>
<p>Social scientists often become activists based on these concepts. And among social scientists, many of us are enthusiastic about the social changes which are happening <em>in parallel with</em> Internet growth. Not because of technology. But because of empowerment. People are using the Internet in their own ways, the one key feature of the Internet being its lack of centralization. While the lack of centralized control may be perceived as a "bad thing" by some (social scientists or not), there's little argument that the 'Net as a whole is out of the control of specific corporations or governments (despite the large degree of consolidation which has happened offline and online).</p>
<p>Especially in the United States, "freedom" is conceived as a basic right. But it's also a basic concept in social analysis. As some put it: "somebody's rights end where another's begin." But social scientists have a whole apparatus to deal with all the nuances and subtleties which are bound to come from any situation where people's rights (freedom) may clash or even simply be interpreted differently. Again, not that social scientists have easy, ready-made answers on these issues. But we're used to dealing with them. We don't interpret freedom as a given.</p>
<p>Transparency is fairly simple and relates directly to how people manage information itself (instead of knowledge or insight). Radical transparency is giving as much information as possible to those who may need it. Everybody has a "right to learn" a lot of things about a given institution (instead of "right to know"), when that institution has a social impact. Canada's Access to Information Act is quite representative of the move to transparency and use of this act has <em>accompanied </em>changes in the ways government officials need to behave to adapt to a relatively new reality.</p>
<p>Openness is an interesting topic, especially in the context of the so-called "Open Source" movement. Radical openness implies participation by outsiders, at least in the form of verbal feedback. The cluefulness of "opening yourself to your users" is made obvious in the context of successes by institutions which have at least <em>portrayed</em> themselves as open. What's in my mind unfortunate is that many institutions now attempt to position themselves on the openness end of the "closed/proprietary to open/responsive" scale without much work done to really open themselves up.</p>
<h2>Communitas</h2>
<p>Mottoes, slogans, and maxims like "build it and they will come," "there's a sucker born every minute," "let them have cake," and "give them what they want" all fail to grasp the basic reality of social life: "they" and "we" are linked. We're all different and we're all connected. We all take parts in groups. These groups are all associated with one another. We can't simply behave the same way with everyone. Identity has two parts: sense of belonging (to an "in-group") and sense of distinction (from an "out-group"). "Us/Them."</p>
<p>Within the "in-group," if there isn't any obvious hierarchy, the sense of belonging can take the form that Victor Turner called "<em>communitas</em>" and which happens in situations giving real meaning to the notion of "community." "Community of experience," "community of practise." Eckert and Wittgenstein brought to online networks. In a community, contacts aren't always harmonious. But people feel they fully belong. A network isn't the same thing as a community.</p>
<h2>The World Is My Oyster</h2>
<p>Despite the so-called "Digital Divide" (or, more precisely, the maintenance online of global inequalities), the 'Net is truly "Global." So is the phone, now that cellphones are accomplishing the "leapfrog effect." But this one Internet we have (i.e., not Internet2 or other such specialized meta-network) is reaching everywhere through a single set of compatible connections. The need for cultural awareness is increased, not alleviated by online activities.</p>
<h2>Release Early, Release Often</h2>
<p>Among friends, we call it <a href="http://enkerli.wordpress.com/acronyms/#RERO">RERO</a>.</p>
<p>The RERO principle is a multiple-pass system. Instead of waiting for the right moment to release a "perfect product" (say, a blogpost!), the "work in progress" is provided widely, garnering feedback which will be integrated in future "product versions." The RERO approach can be unnerving to "product developers," but it has proved its value in online-savvy contexts.</p>
<p>I use "product" in a broad sense because the principle applies to diverse contexts. Furthermore, the RERO principle helps shift the focus from "product," back into "process."</p>
<p>The RERO principle may imply some "emotional" or "psychological" dimensions, such as humility and the acceptance of failure. At some level, differences between RERO and "trial-and-error" methods of development appear insignificant. Those who create something should not expect the first try to be successful and should recognize mistakes to improve on the creative process and product. This is similar to the difference between "rehearsal" (low-stakes experimentation with a process) and "performance" (with responsibility, by the performer, for evaluation by an audience).</p>
<p>Though applications of the early/often concept to social domains are mostly <a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs070.200401/votequote.html">satirical</a>, there is a social dimension to the RERO principle. Releasing a "product" implies a group, a social context.</p>
<p>The partial and frequent "release" of work to "the public" relates directly to openness and transparency. Frequent releases create a "relationship" with human beings. Sure, many of these are "Early Adopters" who are already overrepresented. But the rapport established between an institution and people (users/clients/customers/patrons...) can be transfered more broadly.</p>
<p>Releasing early seems to shift the limit between rehearsal and performance. Instead of being able to do mistakes on your own, your mistakes are shown publicly and your success is directly evaluated. Yet a somewhat reverse effect can occur: evaluation of the end-result becomes a lower-stake rating at different parts of the project because expectations have shifted to the "lower" end. This is probably the logic behind Google's much discussed propensity to call all its products "beta."</p>
<p>While the RERO principle does imply a certain openness, the expectation that each release might integrate <em>all</em> the feedback "users" have given is not fundamental to releasing early and frequently. The expectation is set by a specific social relationship between "developers" and "users." In geek culture, especially when users are knowledgeable enough about technology to make elaborate wishlists, the expectation to respond to user demand can be quite strong, so much so that developers may perceive a sense of entitlement on the part of "users" and grow some resentment out of the situation. "If you don't like it, make it yourself." Such a situation is rather common in <a href="http://enkerli.wordpress.com/acronyms/#FLOSS">FLOSS</a> development: since "users" have access to the source code, they may be expected to contribute to the development project. When "users" not only fail to fulfil expectations set by open development but even have the gumption to ask developers to respond to demands, conflicts may easily occur. And conflicts are among the things which social scientists study most frequently.</p>
<h2>Putting the "Capital" Back into "Social Capital"</h2>
<p>In the past several years, ”monetization” (transforming ideas into currency) has become one of the major foci of anything happening online. Anything which can be a source of profit generates an immediate (and temporary) "buzz." The value of anything online is measured through typical currency-based economics. The relatively recent movement toward ”social" whatever is not only representative of this tendency, but might be seen as its climax: nowadays, even social ties can be sold directly, instead of being part of a secondary transaction. As some people say "The relationship is the currency" (or "the commodity," or "the means to an end"). Fair enough, especially if these people understand what social relationships entail. But still strange, in context, to see people "selling their friends," sometimes in a rather literal sense, when social relationships are conceived as valuable. After all, "selling the friend” transforms that relationship, diminishes its value. Ah, well, maybe everyone involved is just cynical. Still, even their cynicism contributes to the system. But I'm not judging. Really, I'm not. I'm just wondering<br />
Anyhoo, the "What are you selling anyway" question makes as much sense online as it does with telemarketers and other greed-focused strangers (maybe "calls” are always "cold," online). It's just that the answer isn't always so clear when the "business model" revolves around creating, then breaking a set of social expectations.<br />
Me? I don't sell anything. Really, not even my ideas or my sense of self. I'm just not good at selling. Oh, I do promote myself and I do accumulate social capital. As social butterflies are wont to do. The difference is, in the case of social butterflies such as myself, no money is exchanged and the social relationships are, hopefully, intact. This is not to say that friends never help me or never receive my help in a currency-friendly context. It mostly means that, in our cases, the relationships are conceived as their own rewards.<br />
I'm consciously not taking the moral high ground, here, though some people may easily perceive this position as the morally superior one. I'm not even talking about a position. Just about an attitude to society and to social relationships. If you will, it's a type of ethnographic observation from an insider's perspective.</p>
<p>Makes sense?</p>
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<link>http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/?p=17</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Darko Buldioski</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Robin Hamman took some time to interview some of the other speakers at the conference, including:
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<p style="padding-left:30px;">•	Darko Buldioski from the New Media Centre in Skopje and one of the organisers of the conference. He blogs at <a href="http://komunikacii.net/">http://komunikacii.net/</a><br />
•	<a href="http://www.draganvaragic.com/">Dragan Varagic</a>, one of the leading bloggers in Serbia - he's a consultant and university professor<br />
•	Zoran Ricliev, Online Editor of <a href="http://www.utrinski.com.mk/">Utrinski Vesnik</a>, a leading newspaper in Macedonia<br />
•	<a href="http://www.rhiz.eu/person-6384-en.html">Vedran Obucina</a>, a Political Scientist at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and an expert on Political Blogs</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">The interviews were aired on <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20080527-1636.mp3"> BBC Radio 5 Live's Pods and Blogs</a>. It`s at the end of the show, Do have a listen, it's interesting stuff.</p>
<p>Thank you Robin.</p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 16:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Anche qua a Toronto piove ed e' una pioggia che penetra e ammazza le personalita', e' una pioggia consumistica. Ho conosciuto un ragazzo marchigiano (oramai 35enne) che era venuto in nord america per la musica (DJ e altro) di una cultura davvero profonda. Ora il grosso dei suoi "incomes" viene dal fare il cameriere in un ristorantino, anche se ha ancora un contratto con MTv ed insegna italiano per la scuola di un mio amico. Vedo questo ragazzo che sta alzando bandiera bianca, non crede piu' nel suo progetto, non lo dice ma lo si capisce. Mi ha invitato a cena, io non ho fatto niente per lui, ma mi ha trattato come un re. Lui e' quello che siamo anche noi, sognatori e puliti; ma anche illusi. Io torno in Italia, ora non posso proporgli proprio niente, riusciro' a malapena a mantenermi, senza considerare che voglio tornare a studiare. Sento che verra' perso un capitale se questa persona non riuscira' ad esprimersi. Spero un  giorno di tornare qua e provare ad offrigli un futuro. </p>
<p>Ho letto varie pagine dei vostri blog, sarei curioso di sapere, che materie studiate e sapere che lavoro vorreste fare. Vedo nella nostra societa', che l'unica possibilita' di parziale liberta', in un mondo dalle mille possibilita', apparenti, e' mettersi in proprio e lavorare sulle risorse umane. Ho letto che non avete certezze per il vostro futuro lavorativo; io ora non posso proporre nulla neanche a voi, ma se volete fatemi sapere di piu' di voi, non si sa mai che ci sia la possibilita' di costruirvi un lavoro ed un' attivita' attorno, " su misura". Certe ricchezze non devono essere assolutamente sprecate!</p>
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<link>http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/?p=16</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Darko Buldioski</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The interview was made during the Glocal 2.0 conference in Skopje by Damjan Arsovski from Macedonian IT portal <a href="http://it.com.mk/">IT.com.mk</a></p>
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<p>Soon you can expect more from the conference presentations.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Back to "Carnia"/Ritorno in "Carnia"/Torna' in "Cjarnie"]]></title>
<link>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=72</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
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<p>Tomorrow I'll take my fly to Italy. It is time to leave Toronto and be in my natural environment: Carnia, that is a part of my region, Friuli, that is characterized by mountains and valleys. Here in Toronto life is empty. I hope that going back to my father's land, I can find a dimension in which I can live in ethics and awareness.</p>
<p>Domani prendero' il mio volo per tornare in Italia. E' giunta l'ora di lasciare Toronto e andare a vivere nel mio ambiente naturale: la Carnia, che e' una parte della mia regione, il Friuli, che e' caratterizzata da montagne e vallate. Qui a toronto la vita e' vuota. Spero che tornando nella terra di mio padre, io possa trovare una dimensione nella quale poter vivere in modo etico e consapevole.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<link>http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/?p=14</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Darko Buldioski</dc:creator>
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The conference is over, as you can see we were not able to update this blog very often during the s]]></description>
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<p>The conference is over, as you can see we were not able to update this blog very often during the sessions. But it is always good when others do. Some numbers that explain the conference and links to some of resources.</p>
<p><strong>21</strong> presentations were made at the New York University Skopje<br />
<strong>2</strong> of planned presentations were not held held all<br />
<strong> 1</strong> planned presentation was played as video in its session: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6RpdLdxQbc">Is there Educational Blogging in Romania </a>- Gabriela Grosseck &#38; Carmen Holotescu<br />
<strong> 1</strong> presentation was sent to late but it is still available online: <a href="http://www.ngberger.com/file.php/1/hamid/index.html"></a><a href="http://media.ngberger.com/hamid/index.html">Community Building through CMC in Iranian University e-Forums</a> - Hamid Dolatabadi<br />
<strong> 1</strong> not announced presentation, on our great pleasure, was played in the opening session: <span class="vidTitle"><a href="http://seesmic.com/videos/0j3opH9Xaz">Distributed acts of journalism and journalistic acts of distribution</a> - Paul Bradshaw</span><br />
<strong> 13</strong> presentations were by Macedonians</p>
<p><strong>1</strong> Yahoo Pipe was created: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=cd1254759c48121b53f45d3cae55de67"><span>tracking glocal conference</span></a></p>
<p><strong>131</strong> photos with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/glocal20">glocal20 tag</a> were are published on flickr, so far</p>
<p><strong>60+</strong> messages were send through <a href="http://summize.com/search?max_id=809319467&#38;page=1&#38;q=glocal20">twitter</a></p>
<p><strong>30+</strong> participants were present at each of the seasons, with the average ranging between 35 and 40</p>
<p><strong>8</strong> of the presentations (without the videos) are already online  (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinhamman/sets/72157604914914483/">1</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/varagic/blogs-and-the-influence-metrics/">2</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/milozvu4na/blogging-archaeology-creating-an-open-access-source-for-knowledge">3</a>, <a href="http://www.softver.org.mk/novica/prezentacii">4</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/darko156/blogosphere-in-macedonia">5</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guestd08d5b/lifehacking-and-getting-things-done">6</a>, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/word/full?id=2946358&#38;access_key=key-1ntl11wb2qk2f6d94c4y">7</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sead.dzigal/blogging-between-verbal-democracy-and-media-revolution">8</a>)</p>
<p>The numbers don’t say much, on events like this the networking is the most important part. And for sure there was a lot of networking. Thanks to all participants and guests and to all who made this event interesting and successfull.</p>
<p>The Glocal 2.0 does not finish here. We will put online audio and video clips from the conference and a publication with all the papers is planned as well. So stay tuned :).</p>
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<link>http://churchplantingnovice.wordpress.com/?p=141</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bob Roberts of Glocal fame is blogging through &#8220;Why Plant Churches?&#8221;
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<title><![CDATA[A pussy hair pulls better than a pair of horses/ Tira di piu' un pelo di figa, che una pariglia di buoi / Al tire plui un pel di frice, ca un par di buus]]></title>
<link>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=76</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=76</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
For a while my blog has been low on viewers; so I made a post on naked women and suddenly the numbe]]></description>
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<p>For a while my blog has been low on viewers; so I made a post on naked women and suddenly the numbers grow! Where I live there is a saying in my local language (Friulano) that says "Al tire plui un pel di frice, ca un par di buus", tr."A pussy hair pulls better than a pair of horses".</p>
<p>Era un po' che il mio blog era poco visto; e' bastato fare un post con donne scollacciate e subito i numeri sono cresciuti! Dove vivo, c'e' un detto nella mia lingua locale (Friulano) che fa cosi' "Al tire plui un pel di frice, ca un par di buus", tradotto "Tira di piu' un pelo di figa, che una pariglia di buoi".</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
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Dear mother, do you remember when I was 20 years old and I was doing the military service? In th]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;" align="left">Dear mother, do you remember when I was 20 years old and I was doing the military service? In that period, a week seemed to me like a lifetime, but not in the way that the time didn't pass, instead in the meaning of time dilation. I remember the days in Pordenone, the first week, when they turned me inside out like a sock... and after a week came back home to you, where all was still the same but I had changed...In the military camp hoping for a moment to see some MTV or TMC2 image that reminded me of my previous life. That strong sun that seemed to be in Sicily. Instead I was 2 steps from home, that for me was so far...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;" align="left">Now I'm here in Toronto, thousand of kilometers away and I can't feel anything, the fear disappeared, one month, two months have passed and you don't even realize it, a steady state of boredom.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;">Cara Madre, ti ricordi quando avevo vent'anni ed ho fatto il militare? In quel periodo,  una settimana mi sembrava una vita, ma non nel senso che non passava mai, nel senso della dilatazione del tempo. Ricordo i giorni a Pordenone, la prima settimana dove mi hanno rivoltato come un calzino... e dopo una settimana il tornare a casa da te, dove tutto era uguale ma io ero cambiato... In caserma trovare un momento per scorgere qualche passaggio di TMC2 o di MTV che mi riportava alla vita di prima. Quel sole forte che mi sembrava di essere in Sicilia. Ed invece ero a due passi da casa, ma a me sembrava lontanissimo...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;">Ora sono qua a Toronto, migliaia di chilometri da casa e senza quasi sentire niente, la paura svanita, un mese e due mesi e neanche te ne accorgi, una noia quasi persistente.</p>
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<link>http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/?p=275</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rete e news
Macro-effetti della rete sulle notizie
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:36pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><em><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Macro-effetti della rete sulle notizie</span></strong></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:30pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Spazio/tempo</span>:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:30pt;text-indent:17.85pt;">Le dimensioni spazio temporali delle notizie sono state completamente stravolte dall’avvento della rete.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><em>Il tempo è da sempre la dimensione fondamentale dell’informazione. Le news sono per definizione qualcosa di nuovo</em> (anche se per nuovo spesso si intende qualcosa di insolito, non visto). <strong>La rete restringe e dilata il tempo delle notizie.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><em>La competizione per lo scoop, per essere i primi a dare una notizia è sempre più serrata. La notizia in rete diventa subito obsoleta. La notizia in rete rincorre il tempo</em>. <em>La rincorsa continua svilisce la notizia, la rende spesso vuota.</em> Il giornalismo rinuncia a quel ruolo di contestualizzazione del fatto nella realtà sociale, di inquadramento culturale. O meglio, cerca sempre, e anche forse con maggiore intensità, di fornire schemi mentali, frame interpretativi, in cui inquadrare e comprendere l’avvenimento, ma lo fa in modo superficiale e poco profondo. Questo è vero, però, solo per alcuni tipi di notizie e siti. La rete oltre che restringere il tempo contemporaneamente lo dilata, perché nessuna notizia prima della rete era fruibile per così tanto tempo. Gli archivi fioriscono<em>. <span> </span>Le notizie restano lì nei server a disposizione, la loro vita si allunga e su questa possibilità nascono iniziative giornalistiche che mirano ad offrire contenuti più approfonditi e durevoli nel tempo, avvicinando ancor più il giornalismo ad una sorta di storia del presente. </em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong>Il tempo si de-massifica.</strong> Nella società industriale il tempo era socialmente organizzato per favorire i tempi dell’industria sia nel corso della giornata che nell’arco dell’anno. Oggi gli orari, le ferie, i periodi di veglia e di sonno sono molto più diversificati. La rete offre notizie 24 ore su 24 senza interruzione e rispettando i tempi di fruizione individuale, la TV a determinati orari giornalieri e il giornale addirittura una sola volta al giorno. <em>La rete incontra il nuovo tempo personale e la notizia è costretta a divenire un fluire ininterrotto</em>, ma in questo fluire ancora una volta va perso qualcosa e guadagnato altro.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong>L’uomo è finalmente libero a qualsiasi ora del giorno e della notte di farsi un idea di ciò che lo circonda, ma perde (ancora una volta) quel comune accordo su ciò che accade, che i media di massa offrivano ad un popolo. Il popolo, che sempre si fondò su una memoria condivisa, svanisce nelle volatili comunità di rete e non sembra aver trovato la forza di farsi virtuale, per essere reale. </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;">CONTINUA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/rete-e-news-spazio/" target="_blank">Rete e News: Spazio</a></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="../media-e-societa/stampa-e-giornalismo-nell%E2%80%99epoca-della-comunicazione-digitale/">Stampa e giornalismo nell’epoca della comunicazione digitale</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="../media-e-societa/">Media</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:36pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-size:14pt;">Macro-effetti della rete sulle notizie</span></em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:30pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Spazio/tempo</span>:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:30pt;text-indent:17.85pt;">Le dimensioni spazio temporali delle notizie sono state completamente stravolte dall’avvento della rete.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong>Lo spazio si è allargato all’improvviso</strong>. La maggiore facilità di trasmissione favorisce il diffondersi di notizie a livello globale, proprio mentre la rete stessa contribuisce a creare maggiori connessioni spaziali ed insieme a destabilizzare la concezione geografia di vicino e distante meramente spaziale. Vicino molto spesso è ciò che è simile, ciò che interessa indipendentemente dalla sua posizione fisica. L’America è più vicina della Turchia. Questo processo è precedente alle reti digitali, ma esse lo amplificano e lo portano alle estreme conseguenze. Oggi una persona può vivere sapendo tutto di ciò che succede in Cina e nulla del proprio quartiere</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong>Ma al contempo lo spazio si è ristretto</strong>. In rete le poche testate professionali che producono guadagni sono quelle locali, che possono sfruttare le reti sia per raggiungere pubblici interessati ma distanti dalla località di cui si parla (es. migranti), sia per offrire contenuti più specifici in modo economicamente sostenibile e che favorisce la creazione di un senso di comunità che è alla base di ciò che il marketing definisce fidelizzazione<a name="_ednref1" href="#_edn1"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> del cliente.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><em>In pratica la notizia in rete diventa più glocal e il lettore è in grado di vivere virtualmente dove vuole, anche in un mondo che lui stesso crea fatto di piccoli frammenti di informazione in una sorta di collage post-moderno. </em>Questo offre certamente possibilità informative che vanno incontro maggiormente agli interessi delle persone, ma insieme spezza il filo di un discorso pubblico e disconnette le identità da uno specifico ancoraggio territoriale o al contrario le incastra in localismi risorgenti. Ancora una volta la rete offre possibilità liberatorie e nuovi drammi. Nella dissoluzione di una minima narrazione condivisa, le basi stesse su cui le persone riflettono divengono fortemente differenti e il particolarismo esplode. L’idea di un identità nazionale o di una storia nazionale, il classico racconto della giornata dei TG svaniscono lasciando il posto ad un nomadismo in apparenza senza confini, ma segnato da fratture linguistiche, culturali ed economiche. (<a href="../2008/04/08/stampa-e-giornalismo-nellepoca-della-comunicazione-digitale/">per il Digital Divide cenni qui</a>). Insieme si formano nuove comunità con concetti spaziali dirompenti per l’attuale organizzazione politica. Che si tratti di comunità locali o totalmente virtuali, il principio di appartenenza ad esse è quanto minimo in contrasto con quello su cui gli stati oggi si basano.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;">Ma l’effetto più profondo delle reti digitali sulle notizie da un punto di vista spaziale è la possibilità per chiunque (abbia gli strumenti) di trasmettere flussi dati da qualsiasi luogo. Ci sono due aspetti principali che derivano da ciò. Il primo è mostrato in tutta la sua potenza dai video dei telefonini che diventano notizie riprese dai TG o dalla giornalista che trasmette in diretta con il telefono satellitare i bombardamenti di Bagdad. <strong>Ovunque l’occhio elettronico è virtualmente presente e nulla che accade può più sfuggire.</strong> E si arriva alla seconda conseguenza. <strong>I media da sempre tendono a restringere la sfera privata, lontana dagli occhi del pubblico.</strong> La rete rendendo tutti produttori di informazione estremizza questo processo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><em><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman">Goffman</a> insegna che la vita è un po’ come il teatro con un palcoscenico e un dietro le quinte. Il telone è caduto e il dietro le quinte oggi è la materia principale che sul palcoscenico globale rimbalza. Il processo borghese di esaltazione della vita privata, in una sorta di paradosso proprio mentre la privacy svanisce, trova un immane propagatore nella visibilità mondiale di mille vite private vendute in pubblico.</em> <strong>Il privato scaccia il pubblico dal palcoscenico. E la dimensione pubblica, comunitaria della vita si privatizza sempre più. Mentre l’uomo non è mai più solo, perennemente interconnesso</strong>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;">P.S. tre articoli interessanti su giornalismo, citizen journalism e crisi dei modelli economici da LSDI. <a href="http://www.lsdi.it/2008/04/22/in-forte-crisi-le-testate-di-citizen-journalism-%E2%80%9Cpuro%E2%80%9D/">Qui,</a> <a href="http://www.lsdi.it/2008/04/19/modello-bbc-o-donazioni-esplorare-nuove-strade-per-i-quotidiani-di-qualita/">qui</a> e <a href="http://www.lsdi.it/2008/04/17/la-redazione-come-motore-dell%E2%80%99-innovazione/">qui</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Prestito Alitalia, un altro favore della sinistra a Berlusconi / Alitalia's loan, another favour of the left party for Berlusconi]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Dispiace constatare che il governo italiano, concedendo un prestito di 300 milioni di euro, all]]></description>
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<p>Dispiace constatare che il governo italiano, concedendo un prestito di 300 milioni di euro, all'Alitalia, non faccia altro che fare un altro favore a Berlusconi e alle lobby. Questo governo non ha neanche avuto il coraggio, dopo essere stato sfiduciato e calunniato di rifiutarsi di divenire lo zimbello d'Europa, dopo che Berlusconi ha stravolto la campagna elettorale proprio con questo caso. Dopo che Berlusconi ha fatto desistere i francesi di AirFrance con i quali si poteva enucleare la base di un gruppo aeronautico di dimensione Europea e dell'Europa. Prodi, da vecchio democristiano, non e' riuscito a tenere la schiena dritta nemmeno questa volta. E la dignita' non sembra appartenere a questa sinistra italiana, ridicola e ridicolizzata dai suoi stessi leader!</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Also if the italian elections are already an old thing, I post the point of view of a friend of]]></description>
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<p>Also if the italian elections are already an old thing, I post the point of view of a friend of mine, Vladi, who wrote some days ago. I apologize for the lack in translation...</p>
<p>"Caro Andrea, come va? Mi dispiace ma non ho trovato il<br />
tempo per tradurre l' articolo in questo perdiodo..<br />
Dall' Italia come ben sai:<br />
...Un centro sinistra in parte svegliato troppo tardi<br />
ed in parte vecchio e poco capace, in parte marcio:<br />
così l'italietta bagnata, impaurita, smarrita e senza<br />
idee torna all' ovile da padron Berlusconi e si<br />
rifugia in massa nell' "uomo forte" e nella sua destra<br />
becera, incivile, mafiosa ed in parte xenofoba...<br />
Secondo me mancavano, a parte qualche giusto tentativo<br />
di Bersani e buona intenzione di di Pietro, buone e<br />
nuove proposte: tipo<br />
1. Dare la possibilitá a chiunque voglia aprire un'<br />
azienda, di farlo in soli tre giorni col minimo dei<br />
costi in modo da tendere ad un capitalismo democratico<br />
2. Liberalizzare tutto ed abbattere i costi iniziali e<br />
delle licenze per dare la possibilitá a chi ne abbia<br />
volontá, di intraprendere tali attivitá, snellendo e<br />
riducendo ai minimi termini la burocrazia.<br />
3. Investire sulle "vocazioni naturale" dell' Italia:<br />
turismo, gastronomia, moda, design, etc.<br />
4. Combattere l' evasione fiscale in modo severo e<br />
totale riscuotendo il parecchio denaro dei grossi<br />
evasori (non si possono far contenti anche i ladroni<br />
se si vuol far del bene..) ed alleggerire notevolmente<br />
il fisco per le imprese piú piccole.<br />
5. Potenziare ed ammodernizzare la scuola, rendendola<br />
tecnica ma anche poliglotta per un' Italia aperta al<br />
mondo.<br />
6. Legge uguale per tutti, senza buonismi e senza<br />
cattivismi. Delinqui? Non importa se sei italiano o<br />
straniero. L' impunitá non ci deve essere per nessuno.<br />
7. Favorire fortemente una laicitá dello Stato<br />
8. Combattere quella cragna di corporazioni favorendo<br />
la concorrenza e l' abbassamento dei prezzi e, come<br />
detto sopra, la democratizzazione del mercato."</p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Today I have understood better what is the significance of Biodiversity. It is richness because it]]></description>
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<p>Today I have understood better what is the significance of Biodiversity. It is richness because it means more chances, more solutions and more ideas. Simple and clear but not easily understood by everybody.</p>
<p>Oggi ho capito meglio il significato di biodiversita'. E' ricchezza in quanto significa piu' possibilita', piu' soluzioni, piu' idee. Semplice e chiaro ma non facile da capire da parte di molti.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[By Vladi "My (travel in) Brazil" #3/Da Vladi "Il mio (viaggio in) Brasile"#3]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Starting from this Brazil is born, so you can figure out if it could be a earnest cou]]></description>
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<p>(Continue)</p>
<p>Starting from this Brazil is born, so you can figure out if it could be a earnest country, the Country of Carnival :-); Jorge Amado said “only the masks survive in the Country of Carnival”.</p>
<p>Then, speaking in general terms and as a whole, you can note the lack in ethics, in some cases at all... the lack in civic spirit and Institutions (because the institutions in the past were represented by those “bullshits” remained in Portugal and that exploited all remaining in Europe; they exploited black people, Indios and white people. Then the love for transgression of law, the government seen for a lot of people like something that is against the family, like an enemy...</p>
<p>The “friend” seen as someone that can save your ass, that can do to you a favor, etc. A kind of complicity, in a lot of cases between slaves and the slavist. From this arise l'”homem cordial” (“the Brazilian cordial man” as reported by the historian and sociologist of São Paulo Sergio Buarque ).</p>
<p>I visited Brazil from the North to th South. Speaking about the Carnival of Salvador, a big pit, a lot of thefts, a lot of violence, incredible scenes of squalor... and also good music. One thing can be interesting is that there were two million people from all around the world, Brazil, Argentine, Chile, Portugal, United States, a lot from Israel, England, Germany, France, Italy. We are speaking about the biggest street party of the world and I think that it is in this way because, in the “western public imagination”, the country of Carnival, with a lot of things that are going bad, expresses something that we have removed, reduced and ridiculed in our secretive and formal every day life, but that it is necessary for the human being. The desire of the street fest, communion, informality, simplicity, contact, “irrationality”.</p>
<p>I'll write you soon</p>
<p>Mandi, mandi (typical greeting from our Italian region).</p>
<p>Hugs.</p>
<p>Vlad</p>
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<p>(continua) Da tutto questo é nato il Brasile, puoi immaginare se é un Paese serio quindi....Il Paese del Carnevale..:-)<br />
, come diceva Jorge Amado "solo le maschere sopravvivono nel Paese del Carnevale".<br />
Quindi, parlando in termini generali ed in linea di massima, puoi osservare la carenza di etica, in alcuni casi la mancanza totale...la carenza di senso civico, di importanza e rispetto di cio' che é pubblico, delle istituzioni (le istituzoni erano anticamente rappresentate da quegli "stronzi" che rimanevano in Portogallo e che sfruttavano tutti belli e brutti rimanendo in Europa; sfruttavano negri, indios e bianchi (i portoghesi "feccia")... Quindi l'amore per trasgredire la legge di nascosto, lo Stato visto da molti come qualcosa che si oppone alla famiglia, come qualcosa di nemico... L' "amico" visto come quello che ti puo' parare il culo, che ti fa il favore, etc. Una sorta di complicitá, in molti casi, tra schiavi e padroni. Da qui l' "homem cordial" ("uomo cordiale" brasiliano di cui parla lo storico e sociologo di São Paulo Sergio Buarque ).<br />
Ho girato il Brasile da Nord a Sud. Per quanto riguarda il Carnevale di Salvador insomma, una gran bolgia, molti ladri, molta violenza, scene allucinanti di degrado.... e anche buona musica...Una cosa che<br />
puo' essere interessante é che a partecipare al Carnevale di Salvador c' erano due milioni di persone accorse da tutto il Brasile, dall' Argentina, dal Cile, dal Portogallo, dagli Stati Uniti, molti da Israele, dall' Inghilterra, dalla Germania, dalla Francia, alcuni dall' Italia.. Si tratta della festa popolare di strada piú grande al mondo e mi viene da pensare che é così perché, nell' immaginario collettivo della nostra "cultura occidentale" il Paese del Carnevale, con tutte le cose che ha che non vanno,esprime qualcosa che abbiamo rimosso, ridotto e ridicolizzato nella nostra quotidianitá "abbottonata" e formale e che, invece, é necessaria per l' essere umano..Il desiderio di festa di strada, di comunione, di informalitá, di semplicitá, di contatto, di<br />
"irrazionalitá".<br />
Beh, ti scrivo prossimamente.<br />
Mandi, mandi<br />
Abraços<br />
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<link>http://glocalconference.wordpress.com/?p=11</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Darko Buldioski</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Just less than one month before the Conference, we are happy to share the final list of participants]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://h1.ripway.com/darko156/nmc/Glocal20_Programme.pdf"><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;" src="http://h1.ripway.com/darko156/nmc/Glocal20_Programme.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="213" /></a>Just less than one month before the Conference, we are happy to share the final list of participants in the detailed programme for the forthcoming Glocal 2.0 Conference - Blogging: Evolution Treated as Revolution.</p>
<p>There was a larger interest of what we have expected, and therefore we have extended the initially planned two into three day conference. In total, there are five sessions at the Conference, and two parallel workshops at the end.</p>
<p>We hope that you will find interest and attend in all sessions.</p>
<p>Please download the programme as pdf (1.4 mb): <a href="http://h1.ripway.com/darko156/nmc/Glocal20_Programme.pdf">Glocal 2.0 Blogiing: Evolution Treated as Revolution</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Elezioni Italia 2008 #2 "Partito Democratico"/ Elections in Italy 2008 #2 "Democratic Party"]]></title>
<link>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=62</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
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Pensavano di passare alla storia e ce l&#8217;hanno fatta! Hanno cancellato la si]]></description>
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<p>Pensavano di passare alla storia e ce l'hanno fatta! Hanno cancellato la sinistra in Italia e consegnato il paese nelle mani di Berlusconi in un quadro economico internazionale drammatico. Ma comunque bisogna dire che l'ideologia a sinistra in Italia ha bisogno di rinnovare le sue basi. Dopo aver garantito privilegi dicendo che li voleva combattere e dove i suoi leader continuano a usare le stesse frasi di 50, 60 anni fa in una situazione politico-economica totalmente cambiata, la sinistra italiana viveva da troppo fuori dal tempo!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;" align="left">They thought they could pass to history, and they did it! They canceled the Left Party in Italy and turned the country over to Berlusconi in a dramatic economic worldwide situation. However we have to say that the Left ideology in Italy need to renovate his basis. After having warranted privileges saying that it wanted fight them and where its leaders keep using the same sentences of 50 or 60 years ago in a completely changed politic-economic reality, the Italian Left Party lives since too much out of the times!</p>
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<link>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=60</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
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Chi ha fatto la fine del topo? Prima di tutto Casini. Aveva in mano la possibilita&#8217; di dirige]]></description>
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<p>Chi ha fatto la fine del topo? Prima di tutto Casini. Aveva in mano la possibilita' di dirigere il cambio della legge elettorale con un governo guidato da Marini ed adesso non entrera' neanche in  Senato. E poi Bertinotti che ve lo ricordo nell'imitazione di Guzzanti e forse avra' finito di fare gli "scherzi". (vedi sotto)</p>
<p>Who is caught like a rat in the trap? First of all Casini. He had in his hands the chance to direct the change of the electoral law with a government lead by Marini and now his party will not enter even in the Senate. And then, Bertinotti that I recall for you in the imitation of Corrado Guzzanti and it may be the end of his "jokes". (click on the video)</p>
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<link>http://ethically.wordpress.com/?p=53</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ethically</dc:creator>
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Dear Pino, we have discussed several times about the fact that in Toronto, also if there is a ve]]></description>
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<p align="left">Dear Pino, we have discussed several times about the fact that in Toronto, also if there is a very strong Italian community (continually filled out), it can't maintain its language and its traditions, unlike of Chinese community. As we have a lot of times evaluated, the problem is on the second generation (and this happens also in the other minor communities of the city, for example the Korean, as suggested us by Jian). Anyway today I have joined a thought: after I have seen on Omni1 the “Johnny Lombardi Italian Festival", I have realized that a young Italian-Canadian can't be, absolutely, interested to that type of telecast, if he/she don't want to remain retarded at a global and local level. “Rose rosse per te” of the singer Massimo Ranieri, hosannaed by crowds of elderly people, is not more proposed in Italy for at least 20 years (not even on the public television). In Italy, in Naples, there are “99posse”, “24grana”, “Almamegretta”, only to remind someone of them that I know since the fact I used to live 800 km away from that city. The low quality of telecast, then, creates a distance with the audience; but we are witnesses that the Italians are created by the radio and television broadcasting and we are aware that the destiny of new generations is to become Northern Americans, standardized. Basically for the fact that if also they go back in Italy, they couldn't communicate and another culture of their homologous in that country. Bye bye and see you soon.</p>
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<p>Caro Pino, abbiamo piu' volte discusso di come mai Toronto, pur avendo una fortissima comunita' italiana (che e' continuamente rimpolpata), non riesce a mantenere la sua lingua e le sue tradizioni, a differenza della comunita' cinese. Come piu' volte valutato, il problema di base e' sulla seconda generazione (e cio' accade anche nelle altre comunita' minori della citta', esempio ne e' stato quella coreana, grazie al contributo di Jian). Ma oggi ho aggiunto un pensiero: dopo aver visto su Omni 1 il "Jonny Lombardi Italian Festival", mi sono reso conto che un giovane Italo-canadese non puo' essere assolutamente interessato a quel tipo di trasmissione, se non rimanendo un ritardato a livello globale ed anche locale. "Rose rosse per te" cantata da Massimo Ranieri, osannato dalle folle di anziani, non viene proposta in Italia da 20 anni (nemmeno sulla televisione pubblica). In Italia, a Napoli, ci sono i 99 Posse, i 24 Grana, gli Almamegretta, solo per citarne alcuni di quelli che conosco io che vivo a piu' di 800 km di distanza. La bassa qualita' della trasmissione, poi, allontana ancora di piu' il pubblico; ma noi memori che gli italiani sono stati creati al seguito delle trasmissioni radiofoniche e, poi, maggiormente televisive, ci rendiamo conto che il destino delle nuove generazioni e' di diventare dei nord americani, omologati. Principalmente per il fatto che, se anche tornassero in Italia, non saprebbero comunicare e non avrebbero la stessa cultura dei loro omologhi presenti nel paese d'origine. Un saluto ed a presto.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sparkaos</dc:creator>
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Stampa e giornalismo nell’epoca della comunicazione digitale (4)
 
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18pt;"><span>La prima formulazione del concetto di sfera pubblica si deve ad Habermas, da allora spopola in ogni libro sui media e nei discorsi pubblici dei non esperti.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong><em><span>La sfera pubblica è semplicemente lo spazio metaforico in cui i cittadini discutono sugli argomenti di interesse pubblico, anche al fine di esercitare un controllo attivo sull’ operato del governo</span></em></strong><strong><span>.</span></strong><span> Sin dall’inizo (anche se Habermas si riferiva della sfera pubblica borghese dei caffè del XVIII secolo) il ruolo dei media è stato di fondamentale importanza; sia come stimolo e socializzazione della conversazione, sia come segnalazione dei temi più importanti, sia come fornitori di argomentazioni e punti di vista. Proprio per questo Hebermas è scettico sulla democrazia moderna. “… i media tendono a manipolare il loro pubblico piuttosto che aiutarlo nella formazione di un’opinione razionale…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:36pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>I media costituiscono la principale fonte di informazione per i cittadini e con l’avanzare della mediatizzazione della società si è iniziato a parlare di Sfera Pubblica Mediatizzata o, con l’ingresso dei nuovi media interattivi, di Sfera Pubblica Dialogica. <em>Proprio chi ha abbracciato questa teoria del ruolo dei media ha, spesso, visto nella rete l’occasione di rinascita di forme più avanzate di democrazia; grazie alla più libera e cosciente partecipazione dei cittadini e allo sfaldarsi del falso dialogo unidirezionale dei Media Tradizionali, sostituito dal polifonismo della società civile che riacquista facoltà di parola</em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>Molti hanno invece criticato gli apologeti della rete per svariate ragioni, tacciandoli di ottimismo. (le principali)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>La critica più forte riguarda il fatto che <strong>un dialogo non è mai paritario, ma intriso del potere sociale, dello status e delle capacità culturali dei diversi partecipanti</strong>. <em>In rete si riproducono gli squilibri di potere della società e le elite mantengono nel dialogo virtuale il potere fondamentale di definire la realtà. </em>Ovviamente si creano anche opportunità di definizioni oppositive, ma vale anche in questo caso il discorso del Digital Divide (<a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/stampa-e-giornalismo-nellepoca-della-comunicazione-digitale">qui</a>) e della difficoltà ad ottenere contatti.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>C’è poi da considerare che, anche se molti possono prendere la parola, <strong>tutti formano le proprie opinioni cmq in base ad informazioni ed opinioni (frame) provenienti dai media professionali.</strong> (la quantità di realtà che esperiamo direttamente è sempre più ridotta, osserviamo il mondo quasi solo attraverso la finestra dei media)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>Ancor più, c’è da considerare il differente potere dei media (e delle elite) rispetto ai comuni cittadini di influire sulla scelta dei temi all’ordine del giorno (per cenni approssimativi sulla teoria <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_setting">dell’Agenda setting</a>). <strong><em>L’agenda discussa nella sfera pubblica ricalca quasi in pieno quella dei media </em></strong><em>(di solito in confronto competizione con quella dei politici), mentre per i comuni cittadini risulta difficile, anche in rete, imporre un tema e per di più, di solito, confermando il rapporto parassitario che ci intrattengono, <strong>i siti non professionali tendono a strutturarsi secondo la stessa agenda proposta dai media professionali</strong>. </em>Quindi, a limite, la rete aumenta le opportunità di discussione per tutti, ma <em>i temi in discussione sono ancora fortemente decisi dalle solite minoranze e dai media <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream">mainstream</a></em>. Molti invece credono che la possibilità di diffusione virale della rete abbatta questo meccanismo e portano esempi eclatanti di temi nati dal basso che alla fine sono riusciti ad entrare in agenda. Sembra poco probabile che una modalità di diffusione, che raggiunge la grande massa dei cittadini solo in rarissimi casi, possa davvero sbilanciare questo rapporto di potere almeno nell’immediato (sono fortemente scettico anche sul più lungo periodo).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:36pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>E, forse, c’è da considerare che, come afferma la <a href="http://www.sociologia.uniroma1.it/users/nobile/12%20Spirale%20del%20silenzio%20e%20teoria%20della%20coltivazione.pdf">Teoria  della Spirale del Silenzio</a>, <em>le  persone tendono ad esprimere più facilmente le opinioni personali che sembrano  maggioritarie nella società e deducono il clima di opinione principalmente  dalla presentazione che i media fanno dell’opinione pubblica.</em> Questo  significa che in rete si troveranno <strong>molti più interventi di persone che  condividono gli atteggiamenti dominanti che di persone fortemente critiche.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:36pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>La rete ha anche un forte impatto sul <strong>controllo che l’opinione pubblica e i media possono avere sul governo.</strong> Da una parte l’amministrazione deve stare molto più attenta ai suoi utenti, che sono tutti potenziali creatori di scandali; quindi il cittadino può direttamente controllare l’efficacia dell’azione di governo e dell’amministrazione. Dall’altra <em>i media professionali più che a controllare il governo, spinti anche dalla crisi delle redazioni, rinunciano al tradizionale ruolo di cani da guardia del potere (watchdog) e sposano più che altro la filosofia del “bad news, is good news” alimentando il cinismo e rinunciando ad un reale controllo dell’operato del potere, molto più impegnativo</em>. Inoltre, affidandosi sempre più a fonti partitiche e di parte, come fossero fonti obiettive, si fanno strumento di propaganda, anche involontaria, del potere e di certo non di suo controllo (alcuni parlano di stretta fratellanza tra giornalisti e politici). Tutto questo precipita a cascata sul dibattito pubblico che assume i contorni dell’antipolitica e del cinismo, in cui, anche, i produttori indipendenti, spesso, scadono; finendo per passare dal controllo allo sfogo vuoto e cinico o alla pura difesa cieca di interessi di nicchia. Anche in considerazione del fatto che la precarizzazione della professione giornalistica e i licenziamenti rendono rarissimi i casi di inchieste approfondite e specializzate sull’amministrazione, che difficilmente possono essere sostituite dal generoso impegno di tanti professionisti che mettono la loro esperienza a disposizione degli altri in rete sia dall’interno delle istituzioni che da posizione lavorative che offrono uno sguardo privilegiato sullo stato (uno dei fenomeni più interessanti della rete che offre approfondimenti da punti di vista interni e specializzati)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><strong><span>Sommando tutti i limiti della sfera pubblica mediatizzata, si può certamente affermare che il differente potenziale di influenza sul dibattito pubblico resta sostanzialmente invariato</span></strong><span>, <em>si assiste semplicemente ad un lieve spostamento verso classi sociali non appartenenti direttamente alle elite, ma cmq già privilegiate e inserite nel dibattito pubblico.</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>Colpisce il risultato di una ricerca Americana che, qualche anno fa, ha indagato sull’uso che i giovani dei ghetti facevano delle postazioni pubbliche di accesso alla rete. La maggioranza ne faceva un occasione ulteriore di chiacchiera con amici e simili o di raccolta di informazione su temi già di suo interesse come la musica o anche il quartiere da cui non erano mai usciti. A queste condizioni, oggi, sembra del tutto ideologico voler vedere nel web una grande occasione di partecipazione e democratizzazione. (e non abbiamo ancora toccato il presupposto implicito, alla base di quasi tutte le teorie trattate, del cittadino informato che tratteremo più avanti)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-indent:17.85pt;"><span>CONTINUA PROSSIMAMENTE</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/stampa-e-giornalismo-nellepoca-della-comunicazione-digitale/"><br />
Stampa e giornalismo nell’epoca della comunicazione digitale (1)</a><br />
<a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/la-responsabilita-sociale-dei-media/">La responsabilità sociale dei media (2)</a><br />
<a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/la-giustificazione-della-censura-e-del-controllo-culturale/">La giustificazione della censura e del controllo culturale (3)<br />
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<a href="http://frammentinomadi.wordpress.com/media-e-societa/">Media e Società</a></p>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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I find the history of this population (Brazilians) really interesting: thieves and prostitutes e]]></description>
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<p>I find the history of this population (Brazilians) really interesting: thieves and prostitutes exiled by Portugal, general bandits, outcasts, prisoners, adventurers and “dregs” of Portuguese Society obliged by the mother land to go over there, to put in slavery the natives and the niggers to serve them self Portugal and, if they had done well the interests of the Portuguese aristocracy or if they were able to cheat them, they could, without work, gain noble titles (a good stratagem to pass from outcast to noble in few time) and become rich fast.</p>
<p>The priests who went over there centuries ago, reduced the religious ceremonies to simple formalities, to true farce (it may be that they had a point there... he, he) and, far from the Portuguese eyes, they continuously gave themselves up to unrestrained orgies with indigenous women... (after all, better of those who go with children...).</p>
<p>The Indios contributed to pass the disinhibition  and this created the condition for which, in Brazil there are less sexual taboos than in northern Italy and another vision of physical contact.</p>
<p>The niggers kidnapped from Africa (since the fact that the indigenous refused to be reduced in slavery) brought the love for the sun, for the rhythm, they reinforced the body love (not seen as we do like a source of sin), the love for the rhythmic music, the contact with the earth, with the nature, an inclination to human relationship, and then a “subculture”. The first that reduced in slavery the Africans were other Africans and after were sold to the Portuguese. Than we have to say that the slavery was part of the cultures of Yoruba, etc.A lot of sons of a bitch and arse-lickers also among them, then lacking in ethics and cruelty coexist like a paradox with the great effusiveness and capacity and habit to manifest, in every day life, human warmth. (continue)</p>
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<p>(continua)Trovo la storia di questo popolo (brasiliano) molto interessante: ladri e prostitute esiliati dal Portogallo, banditi in generale, derelitti, carcerati, avventurieri e "feccia" (o feccia senza virgolette, a seconda delle opinioni, comunque dei ripudiati sociali) della societá portoghese obbligati dalla Madrepatria portoghese ad andarsene laggiú, schiavizzare indigeni e negri per servire a loro volta il Portogallo e, magari, se facevano bene gli interessi e si arrufianavano l'aristocrazia portoghese o se la sapevano fregare, potevano, senza lavorare, guadagnare titoli nobiliari (bell'espediente per passare da derelitti a nobili in poco<br />
tempo :-)) ed arricchirsi rapidamente.<br />
I sacerdoti che andarono laggiú secoli fa riducevano le cerimonie religiose a delle pure formalitá, a delle vere pagliacciate (non avevano tutti i torti, forse, he, he...) e, lontani dagli occhi di chi rimaneva in Portogallo, si dedicavano continuamente a orge sfrenate con le donne indigene...( tutto sommato meglio di quelli che vanno coi bambini viene da dire).<br />
Gli indios hanno contribuito a trasmettere la disinibizione cosa che fa si che in Brasile ci siano meno tabú sessuali di qua e una visione diversa del contatto fisico. Poi i negri sequestrati dall' Africa (essendo che gli<br />
indigeni si rifiutavano ad essere schiavizzati) hanno portato...l' amore per il sole, per il ritmo, hanno rinforzato l' amore per il corpo (non visto come da noi come fonte di peccato), l' amore per la musica ritmica, il contatto con la terra, con la natura, una certa apertura alle relazioni umane e, anche loro, per<br />
certi aspetti, una "subcultura". I primi a fare schiavi quegli africani furono altri africani che poi li vendettero ai portoghesi. Quindi bisogna dire che la schiavitú faceva parte delle culture Yoruba, ecc.<br />
Parecchi figli di puttana e leccaculo diremmo anche tra di loro, quindi, mancanza di etica e crudeltá<br />
coesistono paradossalmente con una grande espansivitá e capacitá ed abitudine a manifestare, nella<br />
quotidianitá, calore umano. (continua)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The sound track of the Olympic Games / La colonna sonora di questi giochi olimpici]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Power to the people
 

After all the problem with the Olympic torch and the Free Tibet Movement, I ]]></description>
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<p>After all the problem with the Olympic torch and the Free Tibet Movement, I propose this song to support the cause!</p>
<p>Dopo i problemi della torcia olimpica e il movimento per il Tibet libero, io propongo questa canzone per supportare la causa!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[... anche i maschietti ballano...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 16:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Ultimamente mi reco sul blog &#8220;dancin&#8217;fool&#8221;, che trovate anche nel blog roll  e ]]></description>
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<p>Ultimamente mi reco sul blog "dancin'fool", che trovate anche nel blog roll  e l'ho trovato da subito molto interessante e profondo, anche quando si parla semplicemente di un cagnolino.</p>
<p>Se non ho capito male, il tutto nasce come condivisione dell'emozione che da il ballare in maniera sfrenata ed istintiva. Chi mi conosce sa quanto e' stato importante per me il ballare. L'effetto terapeutico che ha avuto negli anni piu' duri dell'universita' (insieme naturalmente allo sport). L'andare a pogare sotto il palco dei Dodieimonodi fino alle performances quasi artistiche nei teatri o nelle feste private.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dodieimonodi.it/mp3/Delirijo_Boy-08-Non_inviare.mp3">http://www.dodieimonodi.it/mp3/Delirijo_Boy-08-Non_inviare.mp3</a>  </p>
<p>un minuto di intro (godetevela) prima del pezzo</p>
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<p>Ricordo ancora volentieri la festa abusiva fatta nel giardino dell'universita', a torso nudo, sotto gli occhi increduli degli altri studenti. (la foto e' un po' sbiadita, ma volevo far notare i capelli lunghi fino alla schiena nonostante l'incipiente calvizie e la carnagione bianchissima. Li' la festa era quasi finita, ma all'inizio era pieno di gente, tutt'attorno).</p>
<p>...quanto gli altri fanno all'amore, io ballo...</p>
<p>Purtroppo ora ho un serio problema al ginocchio e non posso fare cio' che facevo prima, anche il peso corporeo e' aumentato e la preparazione atletica non e' piu' quella di un tempo e allora ballo con la mente e vago con i ricordi da Ovaro (ovarock) a Toronto (Bread &#38; Circus), passando per il parco del Cormor e Maniago, Osoppo (sunsplash) e Iesolo.... Senza dimenticare le serate brasiliane con il mitico Vladimiro o le sagre della zona (vedi l'Epifania friulana di Tarcento)...</p>
<p>...anche i maschietti ballavano...</p>
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