https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Web-Activism-in-Sao-Paulo-New https://booksandideas.net/Web-Activism-in-Sao-Paulo-New 2014-07-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Rita de Cássia Alves Oliveira & Rosemary Segurado Politics Society internet Brazil networks social movements Democracy, Urban Issues and Corruption in Contemporary Brazil <p>In September 2011, Ocupa Sampa, a Brasilian activist movement started to occupy Sao Paulo's center, adopting the same strategy as 15M in Spain or Occupy Wall Street in New York. Analyzing the use of web activism in the organization of this movement, this essay focuses on the role of Ocupa Sampa as a possible precursor to the June Days, which started two years later.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Internet-and-its-Democratic https://booksandideas.net/The-Internet-and-its-Democratic 2012-11-08T00:11:22Z text/html en Dominique Cardon Society democracy internet networks press Institut français <p>What are the political characteristics of the internet revolution? Plunging into “internet democracy,” Dominique Cardon explores the tensions running through this vast network of networks, including the radical equality of its users, their very conspicuous subjectivity, the creation of new kinds of solidarity, and the construction of legitimacy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Hacker-Journalism-A-New-Utopia-for https://booksandideas.net/Hacker-Journalism-A-New-Utopia-for 2011-10-14T07:44:00Z text/html en Sylvain Parasie Politics internet journalism networks press <p>This article explains why and how self-taught computer programmers, web entrepreneurs, web project managers, programmers from free software communities and open data militants alike have all become interested in journalism, despite the economic crisis that the press seems to be facing the world over.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web 2008-09-30T07:38:21Z text/html en Gloria Origgi Arts media internet la suite gauche information evaluation networks <p>How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers? Gloria Origgi claims that Internet is a giant network of ranking and rating systems in which information is valued as long as it has been already filtered by other people. The <i>Information Age</i> is being replaced by a <i>Reputation Age</i>.</p>