Time Sellers: A Telecommunication Informal Economy in Urban Colombia
Time is gold. Minutes are money. Literally, in the streets of Bogota and other Colombian cities, you can buy minutes for hundreds of pesos. Selling time is one ...
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Indie Games Pop-Up Video Arcades
Nurturing aesthetic experimentation and alternative forms of production, distribution and consumption, the indie game culture has grown in the past decade gaini...
The World Wide Web as Social Media
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 19...
Crowdfunding: a New Method of Raising Financial Capital
Crowdfunding is a new fundraising practice that has evolved very fast and has spread globally. In a span of few years, it has gone from a method to collect mone...
The Rise of Indie Games in Austin
Besides being famous for being a “Weird City” and the “Music Capital of the World,” Austin, the capital of Texas, is increasingly being ...
Open Innovation, Indie Games and the Fantastic Arcade
The annual Fantastic Arcade (FA) is a hybrid event that challenges the conventions of what a game industry conference could be, and, instead, celebrates several...
Urban Thinking in Austin: Leveraging Old Buildings for New Ideas
As the fastest growing city in the U.S. (grew 5.4% between 2011-2013) Austin is changing its urban environment and demographics in a pace that is quite shocking...