With 35 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, it is clear that this round of elections will represent more than just a change of leadership. It is an ideological, cultural and geopolitical challenge that will determine the future not only of the United States, but of the entire West. In my latest report, […]
Today’s teenagers, technically digital natives, are growing up in a social dimension profoundly different from ours. They see the digital world not as an extension of reality, but as an integral part of their daily lives. They communicate with each other more through WhatsApp than through face-to-face conversations; a trend that accustoms them to filtered, […]
It’s finally here. In a few hours we will witness what could be the first and only debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. An unmissable date, charged with tension and expectation. Television debates, as we know, have always played a crucial role in American presidential elections. But which ones have been the really decisive […]
Edward Snowden, the young computer scientist who shook the world in 2013 with his revelations about mass surveillance, motivated his decision by stating that “giving up privacy because we have nothing to hide is like giving up the right to speak because we have nothing to say.” A sentence that today, in the midst of […]
He placed his name everywhere, making it a powerful brand to such an extent that allowed him, among other things, to become President of the USA while having against the 95% of the media mainstream. It was the year 2016 and he did it bypassing the traditional information thanks to the social networks: a horizontal […]
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Look at this picture: if you didn’t know that this is Mark Zuckerberg, you would think: “who’s this loser?” Kitsch plastic slippers, baggy jeans, sitting on a hub between a box and a photocopier, with an expression that conveys everything but charisma and self-confidence on his face; the classic nerd, who would have certainly been […]
Derrick de Kerckhove (Wanze, may 30th 1944) is a Canadian-naturalized Belgium-born sociologist and journalist. Sociologist, journalist and scientific director of Media Duemila, he directed the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology of the University of Toronto from 1983 to 2008. He is the author of “The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence” and University Professor […]
