an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet
narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Muñoz-Organero, C. Delgado-Kloos, and \. Astaiza. Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services, page 32:1--32:2. ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium, ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), (2008)
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Organero, and C. Kloos. Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society, volume 281 of IFIP The International Federation for Information Processing, Springer US, (2008)
G. Ramirez-Gonzalez, M. Munoz-Organero, and C. Delgado-Kloos. Workshop on Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organization (Social-IoT). Adjunct Proceedings. First International Conference on The Internet of Things, (2008)