Keywords: media, culture, politics, social activism, technology...

Date: 1998 - 2005

WRITING

A few samples of different stuff.

Participatory Media and Me

March 2005. From the Participatory Media section.

I have mixed feelings about the explosion of alternative media and personal journalism. That’s how I started my first podcast. I have a degree in Journalism and some experience in the field, and I didn’t feel that I was exercising my original métier when I did it. [...]

 

The Internet and Cell Phones as Platforms for the Development of Grassroots Movements

April 2004. From the Scenario Planning section.

In 2004, the expansion of the internet and the development of social networks through technology has allowed the civil society to organize in ways that were not possible before. Thanks to technology, the citizenship has the power to make its opinion be heard louder and clearer, and new grassroots movements are beginning to influence the way that politics is made. [...]

Driving Forces: Migrations (specially in Spain and the European Union)

March 2004. From the Scenario Planning section.

Among the current driving forces I have chosen migration because even though it’s an old phenomenon, I have seen it develop in a clear way during the last few years.
Putting aside the floods of people from the countryside to the city (specially important during the 60s) and concentrating on international migrations, during the XXth century, Spain was pretty much origin of migrations, rather than a reception country. [...]

 

Europe in the Ateneu

November 1998. Ciutat Nord (local journal in Barcelona).

Last October the Ateneu of Nou Barris became for some days the reference point of the alternative culture in Europe. More than 60 representatives of 27 independent and multifunctional centers in the Trans Europe Halles net (TEH) gathered in Barcelona to celebrate the most recent of their meetings during which there was time for debate but also for entertainment. [...]

Revolutionary Italian Tammurriatas

October 1998. Etnopolis (former magazine of the NGO SOS Racisme-Catalonia. It published articles about anti-racism, diversity and integration of immigrants.

The Zeza was one of the characters of an old traditional feast of fertility that was performed in the streets of Naples, and this is where this band of traditional music engaged with the preservation of the national identity and the defense of human rights took its name. [...]

 

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)

May 2001. ICTnet.es

WAP is the acronym for Wireless Application Protocol, a standard that allows the connexion to the Internet to all kind of wireless devices, such as mobile telephones, PDAs or radiotransmitters, and provides them with the access to services such as e-mail, the World Wide Web, newsgroups or Internet Relay Chat.