The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to: •Promote international and intercultural understanding; •Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the •Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general Via Anne Whaits, Dennis T OConnor 
What do we do that makes us who we are in social media spaces, and how do social networks themselves shape us? This advert for the Guardian's open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs. 
What is the best democratic system for the 21st century? For a world where communication is instantaneous, travel is fast, and search is efficient? Via Khannea Suntzu 
How politicians are learning to campaign in 140 characters or less. 
Scientists work to combat false memes... “Our project is meant in general to look at how information is spread online, not just misinformation,” Menczer said. “But that is part of the picture: [if you] understand what a normal pattern is then it can help you also understand what are patterns that may indicate abuse or something that is not normal, or some misinformation or what we call astroturf or spam.” 
To extend the life span of neoliberalism, it needs ideological justification. Facebook explicitly wants to be that. It sustains a subject that is not inauthentic and opportunistic in its perpetual networking but liberated to be and do more. Quantify yourself, increase that quantity. 
Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. ![How do you respond to political content on SNS? [INFOGRAPHIC] | DigitalSociety | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/htfQur2B1cU22nrAEZ4JnTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Politics are social, and the way you interact with others' shared content depends very much on your political leanings. 
KDMC produces a wealth of digital media tutorials to support training sessions and classes. While the focus of some tutorials is on technology and journalism, most are general enough to be of use to anyone. 
If the government gets its way and starts monitoring what you're emailing, it will join a list of countries with a draconian approach to the internet... 
Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'... |
Cory Doctorow: If we don't operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, then we will lose... Emite tus Hangouts para todo el mundo y regístralo en tu canal de YouTube con Google+ Hangouts On Air. Más información en http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair. Via Raúl Luna Oxford Internet Institute - Webcast [40']
The Internet and other new technologies have put information at the centre of the global economy. 
Contrary to popular opinion, we do not yet live in the Information Age. At best, we live in the Data Age—a time when bits of data constantly zoom past our eyes and buzz past our ears, yet few of them inform us meaningfully and usefully. We’re spending millions to put all of that “Big Data” into “The Cloud” without first learning how to separate the signals from the noise. A storm cloud of our own making is already raining confusion down upon us. The Story: We waste too much time racing from home to office, says Marshall McLuhan, an English professor at the University of Toronto who's becoming known internationally for his study on the effects of media. Society's obsession with files and folders forces office workers to make the daily commute from the suburbs to downtown. McLuhan says the stockbroker is the smart one. He learned some time ago that most business may be conducted from anywhere if done by phone. McLuhan's prescient knowledge: In the future, people will no longer only gather in classrooms to learn but will also be moved by "electronic circuitry." 
Los monopolios no son buenos. Parafraseando al Profesor John Naughton de Open University al describir la situación actual de los monopolios de conomiento académico, aquellos monopolios que explotan los bienes comunes generados a partir de instituciones educativas, universidades y centros de investigación financiados con dinero público son simplemente intolerables. 
In this study we investigate how social media shape the networked public sphere and facilitate communication between communities with different political orientations. 
We use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right: the Goldilocks effect. 
There’s my cybernetic organism: the Internet. If you accept that “physical” isn’t only the things we can touch, it’s the largest man-made object on the planet, or will be, soon: It’s outstripping the telephone system, or ingesting it, as I speak. And we who participate in it are physically part of it. The Borg we are becoming.’ 
I recently asked Jurgen Habermas in a public forum what his current opinion is about the state of the public sphere, now that the broadcast era has been supplanted by the many-to-many media that enable so many people to use the Internet as a means of political expression. 
Tim Berners-Lee is the latest to speak out against CISPA, the controversial cyber-security legislation scheduled to be voted on by the House next week. A video about technology, communication and relationships. |
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