Michel Bauwens: Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai
Examining the networked public sphere in recent elections. YouTube 56.44
Michel Bauwens: The New Rules of Innovation – Bottom-Up Solutions to Top-Down Problems
The New Rules Of Innovation: Bottom-Up Solutions To Top-Down Problems In his new book, Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that we’re thinking about worldchanging innovation all wrong: It’s not going to come from where we expect it. Arnie Cooper www.fastcoexist.com, 19 March 2012 The world is currently standing “on the cusp of a post-industrial revolution.” So writes …
Michel Bauwens: The Future of Cities, Information & Inclusion
Dated but relevant. The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion Over the next decade, cities will continue to grow larger and more rapidly. At the same time, new technologies will unlock massive streams of data about cities and their residents. As these forces collide, they will turn every city into a unique civic laboratory—a place where …
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Michel Bauwens: Occupy as a Business Model
‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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Michel Bauwens: Life of the Internet or Internet as Our Life?
Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …
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Michel Bauwens: Occupy as a Culture Change Movement
Discussing OWS (3): #OccupyWallStreet as a Culture Change Movement Excerpted from William Gamson: “The single most important thing to understand about the Occupy movement[deleted plural ending] is that it is primarily a movement about cultural change, not institutional and policy change. Cultural change means changing the nature of political discourse and the various spheres in …
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Michel Bauwens: #WhileWeWatch – #OWS Media Revolution
From Franco Iacomella at P2P Foundation #whilewewatch is a gripping look at the media revolution that emerged from Zuccoti Park in New York City to the world. It is the story of how many people came together in the sun and rain, day and night, broke and loaded with energy and hope to get their …
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