Posts Tagged: Alternatives

Miriyam Aouragh – Social Media as Damocles Sword: The Internet for Arab Activists

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

Miriyam Aouragh’s work with cyberpolitics in the Middle East as well as cyberwarfare in the context of Arab-Israeli conflict has revealed that even scholarly engagement ignores to a large extent the non-media ecology of the Arab activists of the Internet world. In these very special contexts, the materiality of technology is inescapable – her discussion today focuses [...]
As online social networks gain a larger and larger influence...

Social media for the illiterate: CGNET Swara

By Stijn Peeters, March 21, 2013

As online social networks gain a larger and larger influence on our lives, it is easy to forget that even though Facebook has over a billion users, that means there are still over 5 billion people that are not part of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. And while some of those people may deliberately avoid Facebook out [...]
With our queen abdicating at the end of coming April,...

The Dutch queen and the dark side of social media

By Stijn Peeters, February 21, 2013

With our queen abdicating at the end of coming April, it’s hard to avoid the retrospectives of her reign that now dominate the Dutch news. When it comes to social media, however, you might expect there’s not much to look back on; as a 75-year old woman living a highly sheltered life, surely the queen [...]
[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at...

Upcoming events: The Global Square – Berlin Biennale

By marcstumpel, April 12, 2012

[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at Berlin Biennale is divided in two types of activity: Nodes (contents) and Actions. Nodes are: 1.- TGS Starting date: 27 April Presence: 2 months TheGlobalSquare is a decentralized social and organizational environment which respects privacy and transparency for individuals, public organizations and actions. TheGlobalSquare will consist [...]
Social media startup company ‘Unthink’, already referred to as the...

Unthink..Pay for openness and freedom? Think again!

By marcstumpel, October 26, 2011

Social media startup company ‘Unthink’, already referred to as the ‘Anti-Facebook’, has launched the beta version of its website. Unthink positions itself as a more ‘open’ and more ‘honest’ form of social networking. The users supposedly are ‘the owners of their data’, and not the ‘product’ being sold to advertisers. At first sight, the videos, [...]