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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…
Power, cultural industries, and popular culture
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies stay together sharing values, beliefs, and images of the world among their citizens, researchers and theoreticians have looked at how culture is produced, distributed, and consumed, what are the characteristics of…
Updating Habermas’ Public Sphere
The seminal idea of the public sphere introduced by Habermas in 1962 has remained popular until today because it is very useful both for legitimizing, and also imagining, the development of democratic capitalist societies. However, Habermas’ idea needs to be updated in order to fit the dynamics of late-capitalism and the post-modern fragmentation. In an…
Diffusion of netbooks in the U.S.A
Netbooks are a kind of personal computers characterized by a small size, low weight, low power consumption, and low cost. They are diskless, use inexpensive components and rely in free software and Software-as-a-Service applications. Although they can perform the general computing processes of a desktop and a laptop, their CPU power is low and cannot…
Understanding Globalization
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…
Public Ambivalence
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…