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Foto: Manuel Castells, la semana pasada en Madrid (24-11-2009) por Santi Burgos para Ediciones El País, SL. P: Quiero preguntarte por la soledad. Leyendo tu libro hay momentos en que he pensado en esto. De pronto hay un nuevo instrumento que se parece a la radio en su ubicuidad. La radio fue el gran elemento que atenuó la soledad de la gente, ¿internet ha venido a curarla? R.
Entrevista a Manuel Castells: “Obama no se entiende sin la Red” « Sociología Contemporánea
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The Internet has a myriad of applications and every individual adapts what they do with the Internet to their own needs. Sometimes this aspect of variability in perceptions and use of the Internet is forgotten when websites are designed or Internet related policy is discussed. Web pages are seen by people with very different backgrounds often from a wide range of countries and cultures. This event investigates these cultural differences and explores social, political and cultural explanations for these differences. The emphasis will be on different types of use and on different types of user behaviour that researchers and practitioners have found to be more or less prominent in different national cultures around the world.
Oxford Internet Institute - The Multicultural Web
Motivational Environments
The Motivational Environments research module advances Human-Computer Interaction methods, theories, technologies, architectures, and environments that incorporate wearable and ambient sensors, responsive spaces, robots and relational agents to promote creativity, teamwork, learning, and motivation. Affective Learning Companions, real-time multi-modal characters are beginning to sense and respond to learners’ affective cues. Game As Life is extending avant-garde “real-life games” and blurring motivations in everyday digital-physical-social environments. Astronaut Robot Mission Simulators and Pet-Building activities are promoting project based teams and education through novel Human-Robot Interactions.
Groups: Turn Information Overload Into an Asset
This post originally ran under the title Groups: The Secret Weapon of the Social Web . Since it's a holiday in the US and things are slow today, we thought readers might appreciate seeing this post again. Today might be a good day for you to take some time to create some key groups for yourself.
Marketing & Innovation
Alors que j’étais à San Francisco, en attendant Blogwell qui aura lieu cet après midi, j’ai pu m’insérer dans mon ancienne équipe du ‘IT Press tour’ de Philippe Nicola s, avec qui j’ai déjà effectué plusieurs voyages dans la vallée. Aujourd’hui, nous avons rendu visite à Engine Yard , un des nouveaux acteurs de premier plan dans le domaine du “platform as a service” (PaaS c’est à dire le côté infrastructure di cloud computing) pour les start-ups et – de plus en plus – les grands comptes. Le patrond de Engine Yard, John Dillon (notre photo), a partagé ses réflexions avec nous sur le sujet du Cloud Computing (informatique dans le nuage) et nous a éclairé sur l’avenir de ce domaine. “le changement le plus important depuis l’invention du PC !”
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All 128 ASCII characters, including non-printable characters (represented by their abbreviations). The 95 ASCII graphic characters are numbered from 20 hex to 7E hex (decimal 32 to 126). The space character is considered a non-printing graphic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]