Television has been for long the preferred channel for information. Sitting on a sofa or a chair, more or less actively listening to what comes out of the speakers has become the easiest way to stay updated to worldwide news. Radio and Newspaper can not keep up and are fighting […]
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The potential applications of the civic mapping to empower the citizens are promising, from location-aware participative democracy initiatives such as gauging public support for civic planning, to the reporting of urban problems such as blight or requesting snow cleanup. Listed below 5 projects which, using web platforms, help citizens to […]
Which are the “key issues” for social change? How many “keys” do we need to open “the door of change”? What if the door is stuck? Does it mean that we need more pressure (aka stronger social movements)? Here my personal basic representation, where “change” is figured as a door […]
The Internet is continuing to erode the other channels of information like TV, radio, and newspapers as the source of news. One of the latest survey made by Pew Research Center (conducted in the late Spring 2012), which is taken biannually and cover the changing in the news landscape, argues […]