Talking about globalization is certainly a common place nowadays. Everybody uses that word, from scholars to marketers, from politicians to journalists. It has a popular appeal because it seems to imply certain understanding of the complexities of contemporary interconnected world. However, globalization is a concept that does not have a clear definition and can be…
The word “public” has an ambivalent meaning. Perhaps because of that, it is one of most evocative and suggestive terms in the political discourse of the western world. Public parks, public services, public buildings, public squares, public opinions, public transportations, public universities, public interests, public persons, public enemies, public relations, public scandals, public art for…
September 16th, 2009 (first published on vVvAlog at MIT) Social and communications researchers should be moving if we want to create new knowledge about the complex world where we live and if we want to change it. In our studies we should not only adopt a multi-methodological approach combining the positivist, systems, critical, and interpretative…
July 30th, 2009 (re-posted from vVvAlog at mit) after almost two months of being in my home country i want to write a few things about the public life, the news, the politics, the jet set, the reality that is public to everybody. the narrative strategy of the telenovela has permeated everything. it seems to…
July 11th, 2009 this is a public space project in which i will draw the silhouette of the two big mountains in the streets of the bogota downtown. it will be a kind of projection of their shades. imagine having a huge sun projecting the shades of these mountains in the streets. could be even…
July 10th, 2009 This project consists in recording the sound of taxi radio telephones in Bogota: the voices of the central and all the other taxi drivers. An inventory of their codes: M12 14. or 5 40. R15. QAP. the recording lasts the length of the ride. The passenger will start recording as soon as…
Last July I attended to the SCRATCH@MIT conference that took place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. People from all over the world met during three days to share their experiences as players, users, teachers, developers, researchers, and fans of this new programming language and online community created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group….