Postmodernist and postcolonial societies

Nowadays, the information age, postmodernist and postcolonial societies have to cope with a new emerged factor that may have a very important impact upon people’s imaginary and self-representation: virtual network communications and the mass media. This new element has been bringing about massive migration movements due to the high speed at which information flows or sweep throughout the globe and its power to give rise to ambitious projects and prospects.

A 2.0 Lehendakari

Patxi Lopez is a politician, General-Secretary of the PSE, and the current Lehendakari (president) of the Basque Country. Though he belongs to a party with a national scope as it is PSOE, I am going to, basically, be focused on the way Patxi Lopez draws upon Web 2.0 technologies to promote his public profile as it is an important part of the job of an updated politician nowadays. I will only discuss about the image that Patxi Lopez wishes to project of himself and how he deals with all the tools that the network delivers to him.

Multicultural Choice

Nowadays, at the information age, modern societies (specially since the Iron Curtain was torn down) have to cope with some new emerged factors that may have a remarkable impact upon people’s imaginary and self-representation: mass migration movements, the internet and the mass media dissemination. As a consequence of the disappearance of the Soviet Union that divided the world in two distinguishable blocks, the flow of images and people who sweep through the world has dramatically increased and been enhanced by liberal market policies.

The new way of saying “friends”

David Tebbutt is an award-winning columnist and feature writer who specialises on the subject of using software and technology to increase business productivity, in his opinion: “The social stuff connects birds of a feather together and face-to-face can always follow an online encounter if it’s considered important enough”.