Monthly Archives: October 2006

Informaticiens sans frontieres

I am doing a paper on Media and its role on the digital divide and its clear that in recent years, the connection between the media and internet have had an enormous effect social and economic development in urban area but more noticeably in rural communities.
On the other hand, considering the complexity of the technology [...]

Designing common sense

Well, the easy goal is to build a ‘thinking’ system resourceful enough to combine the advantages of many different ways to think about things, by making use of many types of mechanisms for reasoning, representation and reflection.
But there are two questions; how can we build a machine with the intelligence of a person but more [...]

Thing/thing society

I’ve been hit with the ‘Postmodernism vs. Marxism’ virus. It’s in my email - lots of email - people are sending me articles - stop already - you are missing the point of what I am saying.
It’s not about political definitions – the world has already passed that stage – open a door and look [...]

Oversocialization - where’s the value

We now know we have literally tens if not hundreds of digital identities out there in the world for each one of us – some of them constructed by us and some of them constructed by others.
As more and more of our sense of self beings to come from these digital identities it suggests [...]

Global media bias?

It’s worth repeating here the metanews of Newsweek’s most recent cover as it appears around the world:
Here’s the worldwide cover story “Losing Afghanistan” … except in U.S.
Believe it.

Freedom of the press? Self-censorship? Just plain scared of the public opinion?
Bingo!
Tags: america, gullibility, big media, politics
… by dg @ information flow\how