Posted in IT, film, internet, media, people, politic, society, società, technology, web 2.0, tagged access, analyze, communication, create, culture, digital divide, education, evaluate, image, independent media, information, internet, literacy, manipulation, mass media, means, media, media literacy, message, misrepresentation, participatory media, politic, propaganda, radio, reality, representation, tv, virtual on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ACME Vermont
Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms.
“The media are major industries, generating profit and employment; they provide us with most of our information about the political process; and they offer us ideas, images and [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, internet, open source, people, resource, social network, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged business, citizen science, collaboration, cooperation, crowdsourcing, global market, jeff howe, open enterprise, open source, outsourcing, project, web 2.0, wikipedia on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article.
Examples: [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, data, ecology, enviroment, free, internet, media, science, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged 3D, algae blooms, bathymetry, coral reef, currents, data, database, enviroment, google, google maps, google ocean, lamont_doherty, map, mape, mapping, ocean, oceani, sea, shipwreck, topografia, topography, weather patterns on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean. The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts to create a 3D oceanographic map.
The tool–for now called Google Ocean, is expected to be similar to other 3D online mapping applications. People will be [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, free, internet, media, music, open source, people, social network, society, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged bebo, chatting, collective intelligence, communication, cyworld, facebook, file sharing, foaf, friends, friendster, group, hi5, interaction, link, messaging, myspace, networking, open source, orkut, social network, web 2.0, web application on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by leelefever
A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
Most services are primarily web-based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, [...]
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Posted in IT, internet, media, open source, social network, technology, web 2.0, web application, tagged o'reilly, web 2.0, web 2.0 expo, web 2.0 summit on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco takes the pulse of the Web ecosystem and looks to its future, training a spotlight across the Web 2.0 universe to illuminate how the Internet Revolution is being created and delivered.
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco happens April 22-25, 2008 at Moscone West.
Other dates are:
Web 2.0 Expo [...]
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Posted in IT, internet, media, people, social network, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged communication, comunicazione, electronic mass media, Galassia Gutemberg, global village, Gutenberg Galaxy, internet, mass media, media, mezzi di comunicazione, new media, nuovi media, oral media, villagio globale, world wide web on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Global Village by DylanPenev via youtube
In The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) Marshall McLuhan describes how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, free, international organization, internet, media, open source, people, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged collaboration, collaborazione, collective intelligence, cooperation, education, enciclopedia, encyclopedia, free, gratis, intelligenza collettiva, internet, jimmy wales, knowledge, larry sanger, no profit, sapere, technology, volunteers, web 2.0, wiki, wikimedia, wikipedia on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video: “Truth in Numbers”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the [...]
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