Global Culture

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks giving hints about what this project is, mostly because I wasn’t quite sure how it would evolve. However, a number of conversations I’ve had with people interested in the idea have helped shape the idea. So here it is, first draft:

This project will create an ecosystem [...]

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Via one of the Creative Commons features I came across the openDemocracy online magazine. Reading about their articles filed under “arts & culture” I found a little experiment they ran a couple of years that resonated a lot with what we’ve set to do here. The first post of a discussion forum [...]

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Through a number of conversations I had this week, it became clear that while the ideas presented here are embraced with interest by many, there is always a cloud of uncertainty around what this project really is.
A friend of mine came up with a simple analogy: a tourist guide.

Written not by some foreigner that [...]

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Via an article by Alexander Rai entitled “Neoliberalism Globalization and The Commodification of Global Culture”, I’m finding strong support to some of the ideas mentioned in earlier posts.
While the article is a position about the advancement of Neoliberalism and its mechanisms to dominate culture, I found a lot more interesting some of the [...]

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The MIT faculty of Comparative Media Studies focuses some of its research on Global Culture and Media. Since I expect technology to play a fundamental role in the deployment of this project, I looked with interest for more information about their results. With statements such as:
these new technologies potentially accelerate long-standing trends towards [...]

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This past week has taken me into other aspects of globalization, through a couple of documentaries. The first one “an inconvenient truth” is Al Gore’s crusade to educate us on the larger issue of global warming and its effect on climate change. The second one is “the end of suburbia” and its scary [...]

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