En el libro The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) se predecía que los mercados se convertirían en grandes conversaciones globales. Algo similar ha pasado con los medios de comunicación y la política. La transformación digital ha cambiado las esferas pública y privada, en donde ahora se mimetizan multitudes…
There is a social construction online that we call a place to live and work, to be counted as its citizens, for lack of a better word. Karen Mossberg defines #digital citizenship as “the ability to participate in society online.” The definition makes sense, but…
A book by William Cronon William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis is a history of Chicago. A city that emerged in the northern Midwest against considerable odds; but nevertheless achieved in a very short period of time a position of dominance in trade, in particular for lumber…
It is remarkable that the development of online collaboration, of social production networks and online communities, and of the New Commons itself, is happening in a backdrop of increased wariness with the perceived maladies of over-extended globalization, the surge in power of transnational corporations, the…