When it comes to wealth distribution, the picture is pretty clear. We house in apartments or houses, have access to wifi (sometimes even for free), and have quality drinking water (even though some people still insist on buying bottled water for whatever unnecessary reason. JUST GET A BRITA! ). A further feature we see as naturally embedded in our beings are rights,…
When I was a child my grandparents used to tell me; one day we don’t need to drive anymore, the car would do the driving for you. Then, I would look at them and would think you get crazier every time I see you. The first experiments with self-driving cars were done in 1925, when a radio controlled “American Wonder” was travelling…
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Some will argue that social media has enriched our lives and some will despise it. One of its aspects is that it can be used to communicate to large groups of people (almost) without being mediated. Mediated. That word sounds familiar. The first five letters of that word form the word media and that is how politicians and others that had something…
For this week’s blog post I decided to write a letter to all bar or pub goers from my point of view as a bartender. The post was inspired by my experiences at work, and my perception of the atmosphere in bars (or any other place one might go to for drinks and food). It’s my personal opinion, shaped by working in…
Maffesoli’s article from this week’s mandatory reading list describes the ways in which neo-tribes developed as a consequence of postmodernism. These are presented as a sociocultural transformation affecting the religious, ideological, economic and sexual spheres. While before the late 20th century there was a social structure where authorities imposed a specific role for each person; afterwards, we developed a social order based on organic and…
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This week’s blog I want to dedicate to my own interaction with social media, as someone who has managed the social media for several organisations. A social media manager? Can’t anyone from our generation do this? Probably you can, but maybe not? It entirely depends on what type of organisation you are doing this for and what their audience is. I started…
This week I would like to spend a little bit of time reflecting on the way I use the ‘favorites’ system found in various places on the internet, particularly that of YouTube. YouTube, like many other social media websites, allows users to tag a piece of content as a ‘favorite’, thereby adding it to a special list that is unique to that…