Tag: web2.0
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Web 2.0 – The Promised Land
Approaching a definition of Web 2.0 – The Social Software Weblog I have never really liked the ‘periodisation’ that comes out of ICT discourse — like calling ‘social software’ and the developments around content management systems (blogs)– the ‘Web 2.0’. The Web has never really been one thing and never will be. ‘Web 1.0’ was…
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Gentrification in Fitzroy
Fitzroy is the archetype of a post-industrial Australian suburb. As Manual Castells, the Economic Geographer Kevin O'Connor, and a plethora of other authors argue, post-industrialism is the underlying catalyst for the present globalisation process.[1] Inner city Australian communities are experiencing rapid gentrification, closing factories, rising rents and property values, and the appropriation of the working…
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What is globalisation?
Thankfully, globalisation is not understood as being one thing. Different groups (depending on their social and geographical positioning) interpret it in various ways depending on their own political circumstances. The minimal working definitions of globalisation (or dare I say ‘globalism’) circulate around the belief that complex interconnections are rapidly developing between societies, institutions, cultures, collectives…