The brief considerations on web and social media, written by Massimo Zaninelli and posted on the blog of this site in recent months, were accepted by the Board of the International Conference on Business Strategy and Social Sciences (ICBSSS), held in Kuala Lumpur on August 16-17. Being a ground of… read more →
To what extent is what we read on the Web reliable? There was a time, not too long ago, when the phrase “It said on the television” counted as a pledge of reliability for any information. Today, the web tends to take its place (think of the use of social… read more →
To put social media[1] in a realistic perspective, it is useful to consider not only the extent of their success, but also their number and variety. Wikipedia lists 198 of the main and most popular social media worldwide, [2] classified in different ways: by category (magazines, Internet forums, weblogs, or… read more →
Internet seems to have (and to some extent has) been born to give voice to anyone browsing through its pages. Very few would venture to question that the right to free expression is an integral part of the unwritten agreement that lies at the origins of the Web’s success. Yet… read more →
Digital democracy This is maybe one of the wildest dreams nurturing the development of the web. Now that the world of politics is increasingly taking hold of the Internet as a channel to gain consensus, reality is asking questions that demand answers. The following examples will help clarify the extent… read more →
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery’s sentence[1] seems to have been intended to capture the sense of unease frequently associated with the Internet. The qualitative promises (regarding quantity there is already too much) of a universal web based… read more →
