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Posts By: Nicola Bozzi

Eleanor Saitta: Networks and Nation States

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

Hacker, artist and writer Eleanor Saitta started her presentation by tracing quite a bleak scenario of the current global situation. As overpopulation and global warming expose the limits of the human presence on Earth, financial capitalism appropriates sociality, under the disguise of normal companies like Facebook. States try and keep their controlling position, while at [...]

Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives (Debate)

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

This panel session was pretty intense, as was the following debate. Below an overview of each presentation. Elijah Sparrow‘s speech was focused on presenting the Crabgrass platform, a social network for activist groups currently in an early alpha phase, but nonetheless serving some 30.000 users already. Theoretically based on a very specific idea of networking [...]

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