Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur and an international lecturer on the challenges of our digital future. In this essay for the Quarterly, he examines how the Internet has given rise to a generational revolt that is changing not only the economics of the film business but how the public perceives films. The result could be a cacophony of user-generated content in which individual artists lose their voice—and livelihood.
- Roberta Zouain
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
- Roberta Zouain
In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions from fans via Flickr, this modern release awakens memories of a tradition that seemed lost in the digital age we live in.
- Roberta Zouain
Over the past few months, Twitter has experienced explosive growth, attracting celebrity users such as Oprah, and a growing mountain of media and blog coverage. Sysomos Inc., one of the world's leading social media analytics companies, conducted an extensive study to document Twitter's growth and how people are using it.
- Roberta Zouain
The aim of this section of the course is to explore in greater depth the controversy as to how far technology does, or does not, condition social change.
- Roberta Zouain
Because innovation comes most often from engaged employees, recognition is key to moving employees from marking time to making innovation.
- Roberta Zouain
The innovators, artists and voters of tomorrow need to know that copyright law restricts many activities but also permits many others. And they need to know the positive steps they can take to protect themselves in the digital sphere. In short, youth don't need more intimidation — what they need is solid, accurate information.
- Roberta Zouain
The goal of OpenLanhouse is to provide a full featured and easy to use LAN house and Cyber Cafe manager, The project is entirely developed in Python and Gtk following the GNOME Human Guidelines for an intuitive and easy to use application, See this software in action, watching Screencasts and looking to Screenshots.
- Roberta Zouain
For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.
- Roberta Zouain
Adote um parágrafo é um projeto aberto para traduzir para o português e disponibilizar na rede textos sobre comunicação e internet que, do contrário, dificilmente seriam poderiam ser aproveitados fora dos círculos de pessoas interessadas no assunto.
- Roberta Zouain
How do social groups collect and make sense of information? How can we scientifically understand such processes and turn that understanding into knowledge that guides the art and engineering of new designs for the social Web? In this post I summarize some findings about the operation of social networks in science and business.
- Roberta Zouain
Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and friends' music collections.
- Roberta Zouain