Back Again

After having started and stopped several weblogs, I have decided to come back to the logging practice, in its long format, in order to exercise my writing and have more space for developing my arguments, ideas, curiosities, exploits, and opinions. In recent years, most of my everyday  publishing activity has centered around microblogging in twitter,…

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Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society

“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 years of electrical transmission of written messages across the United States of America and the world, Western Union, the first communication empire, announced the discontinuity of the telegram messaging…

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