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And the question is: Are YOU plugged or unplugged?You may ask yourself: am I unplugged or plugged? You may say to yourself: of course I’m plugged, since I’m reading this online! Right? Well, not exactly. The answer is much more difficult and the question essentially one that should lead to dialogue to shed light on the blank spaces on all our mental maps. read more  A. Hirsch - 18.06.2002 |
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UNPLUGGED: Outside the Global Net? In one globally connected world, is there some space left beyond those limits? Or are there only small differences in scope, e.g. how powerful are connections and lines between centers and peripheries? On the history, the metaphors and the politics between the 'plugged' and the 'unplugged'. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 07.06.2002 |
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Harry Potter – A Case Study on Cultural Diversity and Economic Power Some 30 nationally and culturally different images of Harry Potter exist in the world – plus the one global brand promoted by the media conglomerate AOL Time Warner. This makes Harry Potter an exemplary case in the antagonism between local and global cultural identities. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 03.06.2002 |
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UNPLUGGED: The Paradoxes of Culture as a Market, Part 1 Looking at the markets of information, communication and entertainment, or, more specifically, of culture, from a somehow confusing and contradictory perspective. Paradoxes, one may think, are just the normal parameters to define the cultural game. Therefore it is critical to have a closer look, and to collect and analyse facts. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 23.05.2002 |
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Tonga Voice on the Internet: Tonga.Online A 'Big Blue Van', a mobile Internet centre on a truck, has been the first connection tot the Internet of the Tonga-people in Zimbabwe. It is one of the achievements of the Tonga.Online project, which has been awarded a Honorary Mention in the Net Excellence category. read more I. Fischer - 17.05.2002 |
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UNPLUGGED: Global Cultures or French Exceptions? Global cultural industries and domestic cultural traditions are almost inevitably set on a collision course. The latest example is the heated debate on France’s 'cultural exception' and the policy of the world’s second largest media group Vivendi Universal. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 08.05.2002 |
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UNPLUGGED: Wiring Africa The so-called Digital Divide is at its most extreme in Africa, where the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is still at a very early stage of development compared to other regions of the world. Mike Jensen (ZA), speaker at this year's Ars Electronica Festival, gives a status report on connectivity in Africa. read more I. Fischer - 06.05.2002 |
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UNPLUGGED: Buckminster Fuller: Re-Mapping Our Mental Model of the World Richard Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map helps replacing our 16th century mental model of the world with views on the 'spaceship earth' ready for the 21st century and the discussion of the different aspects of being UNPLUGGED. read more Andreas Hirsch - 03.05.2002 |
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Cultures UNPLUGGED: Charting the Divide Paradoxically, globalization and digitisation generate new forces of fragmentation. As the world wide web integrates global flows of information and cultural goods on the highest levels, locally and regionally, things dramatically fall apart. Case studies, facts and figures, analyses. read more Rüdiger Wischenbart - 26.04.2002 |
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