• Education, technology and freedom

      Recently, a teacher asked me for help to build a weblog: he told me he had been "obliged to have one". Technology education policies of this kind are ankward for me (as ankward as prohibitions of edutech initiatives). In general, I fail to see compulsory measures as a good way to show the advantages/disadvantages…

  • When corporations and politics encounter each other

      «The corporation» is an award winning documentary about multinational enterprises’ growing power. Its take is that economic interests explain current international relations better than political reasons: corporations are the «dominant institutions of our time».The movie is an «old classic» (it was filmed in 2003) and has already been discussed widely in the blogosphere, but…

  • International flows in the Internet

      Recently, I discovered or re-read some academic studies which revisit classic International Communication concerns and apply them to the Net. It is interesting to see how much the new proposals can resemble research tradition, while still improving it.   In 1970’s and 1980’s it was easy to find scholars who criticised openly the unfairness…

  • Sidney Pollack, about news sources

      Director Sidney Pollack died last monday 28 may. One of his most popular films is Out of Africa, with the touching soundtrack and the unforgettable hair-washing scene with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep (around minute 5’55», one of the most breath-holding moments in the History of cinema). But it might be good to recommend…

  • Through the eyes of a photojournalist

    How is it to work as a photojournalist? Have you ever thought how it feels to take close shots of high public figures while they make a speech? Gilles Vidal is a French journalist that has gained fame through his panoreportages: panoramic images/videos that allow viewers to virtually place themselves behind Gilles’ eyes in order…