International Journal of Communication, Vol. 5 (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · arab spring, internet, labour, network society, networks, new media, protest, technology, theory, web 2.0
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
Special sections: Network Theory, New Media in International Contexts.
Features: Academic Labor, The Arab Spring.
Editors: Manuel Castells, Larry Gross
Published by University of Southern California, Annenberg Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
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Comment (0)Fadaiat: Freedom of Movement – Freedom of Knowledge (2006) [Spanish/English/Arabic]
Filed under book | Tags: · citizenship, gibraltar, globalisation, labour, migration, network society, technology
“The straits of Gibraltar is a mirror-territory of the transformations taking place in the world today: globalisation, migrations, borders, citizenship, network-society, communication, technologies… The border is a crossed-place, an extensive territory of life and mobile confinements where multiple social practices put pressure on established limits. New spaces and relationships emerge from and through the border between southern europe and northern africa.
The book and all it entails plays an important and irreplaceable role, but it is just a fragment of a process that goes far beyond it in terms of both time and subject matter. Here it opens new possible becomings that were mere conjectures until it was written; it is a line with relative autonomy running parallel to the other relatively autonomous part-projects and establishing fruitful exchanges among them, which in turn become an opportunity for new projects.
Through this process, and specially the publishing of this book, we want to contribute to the existence of new spaces of social and technological hybridisations that, by forging new paths, continually (re)invent world(s).”
A book was developed in connection to event Fadaiat: Freedom of Movement – Freedom of knowledge.
Authors: Pilar Monsell Prado, Pablo de Soto Suárez, Joan Escofet Planas, José Pérez de Lama, Marta Paz Naveiro, Mónica Lama Jiménez, Helena García Rodríguez, Sergio Moreno Páez
Published by Observatorio Tecnológico del Estrecho
209 pages
License: Aire Incodicional
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Robert Hassan: Empires of Speed. Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, cyberculture, democracy, network society, politics, postmodern, social democracy, speed, time
The beginning of the 21st century is witnessing the emergence of a social, political and technological revolution in networked computing. We now live in a networked society, but it functions and develops at such an accelerating rate that it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately understand the nature of this radical society. Empires of Speed is the first book to analyse the far-reaching transformations of speed-filled everyday life. In a compelling study Hassan shows that we are leaving behind a modern world based upon the time of the clock, and are entering a new and volatile phase where an accelerating ‘network time’ poses fundamental economic and political challenges in our postmodern world, challenges we barely comprehend and are thus woefully unprepared for.
Publisher BRILL, 2009
Volume 4 of Supplements to The study of time
ISBN 9004175903, 9789004175907
Length 254 pages