About new techno-social networks: political and educational emergencies
This article is based on a qualitative research done with ﬁve countercultural groups in Colombia, which inten-sively use information and communication technologies. The results are analyzed in relation to new ways to share and disseminate knowledge and new forms of social and political organization. They are comprehended as an expanded social educative practice. These technosocial practices are considered as ways of being resistant against dominant and homogenizing political and cultural models. They also show alternative forms of community and knowledge. Nevertheless, it is a novelty observed in relation to the power and inequality that exist in those collectives.
Other Worlds Are (already) Possible: Cyber-Internationalism and Post-Capitalist Cultures
Queremos un desarrollo pleno de las practicas ciberespaciales (ciberculturas) que cumpla las promesas de las tecnologias digitales a la vez que contribuyan y proporcionen un nuevo modelo para la pluralizacion y la democratizacion de la vida social, economica y ecologica...
Same Same But Different - also in Europe! A New Methodological Approach in Cross-Country Analysis of Communication Structuresapplied to five EU member states
The EU still lacks a truly European public sphere. On this level, there is still a clear lack of integration between individual member states. This means that national public spheres and cultures are still of great importance for European communication and media professionals. Comparative research into the similarities and differences between different nations is therefore valuable for cross-border PR communication activities. This paper lays out the methodological foundation for such research, discussing possible approaches and difficulties associated with comparative research. The author then introduces a potential heuristic framework for comparative analysis: the International Corporate Communication Compass. This framework is applied to five case-study EU countries (Denmark, Germany, France, Poland and the UK), showing the differences and similarities in a range of different contexts that affect public communication in all its forms. The conclusion examines how the results of such studies could be used in order to compare communication identities of different countries. This can potentially help in the development of a European public identity on the long run and in a first step can led towards a better, more adapted communication structure about European citizenship. Ultimately, communication structures within the EU might become more Europeanized than they