Communication on the Internet

5 clear and actionable video talk tips to nail your online presentations

You need to give a talk on zoom and you need a hand preparing it?…

About communication and Coffee

Communication is about persons and about sharing as we become humans by social interaction.

What is Media Literacy

With Media Literacy we get critical reception + creative emision. It’s nothing but a runaway…

Communication is Oxygen we say at Automattic. And it’s true. We become humans through communication and death is nothing but the interruption of any communication..

Foto John Dyer; CC-NC-ND

5 clear and actionable video talk tips to nail your online presentations

You need to give a talk on zoom and you need a hand preparing it? Here you have 5 clear and actionable tips to nail it!

About communication and Coffee

Communication is about persons and about sharing as we become humans by social interaction.

What is Media Literacy

With Media Literacy we get critical reception + creative emision. It’s nothing but a runaway from Bourdieu and Passeron’s reproduction.

Dunbar number revisited

Dunbar proved brain evolution happened to allow a more sophisticated social interaction. But the Dunbar number is just a picturesque invention.

Dunbar’s number: your neocortex deciding how many friends you have

Human neocórtex is great because it is boosted with social interaction as to say goodbye to the Dunbar’s number. You can have more than 150 friends.

PostModernism, WWW and Mass Media. Concept Map.

A concept map explaining feedback between Lyotard and Braudillard Postmodernism, web technology and the empowerment of mass media.

Knowledge, Language, and Communication. Concept map.

We are born being animals and become humans through social interaction and communication / language. Here it is a concept map depicting these relationships.

1:1 support sessions. A quick guide from the start to the end.

1:1 support sessions. A quick guide from the start to the end. How to prepare it, having the session and what to do once it is over.

Meetamattician: Soul for the disperse and the diverse.

It’s just a question of following the right people. For instance, Karen Alma. I found a Matt Mullemnberg quote about distributed working (even if there are some opinions postulating this should be called disperse, that changes essentially nothing here) by reading her blog. In a world where at offices, everyone has headphones on and stares at screens anyway, and you…

A brief thought about consensus and divergence

What if I say consensus is over-considered? There is a nasty ideological construction that has institutionalized consensus as a dogma. It seems any human communication process goal is to reach consensus: to be able to agree on something. But is there anything beyond consensus? Yep. There is. [Star Wars mode on] Consensus obscure is. Powerful, consensus seduction, to fascism lead…

Why we need media literacy?

So what’s Media Literacy, then? There are severa approachs, but… I love the South American -let’s call it this way :D- one… Isolated individuals zigzag over system limits. Isolated individual zigzags over system limits, and even if he doesn’t understand it because they were enculturated in competition values, he needs the others. “You cannot fight alone without tiring yourself” (Story…

Identity is made online or offline?

Sci-Fi has anticipated, sometimes quite accurately, lots of Internet innovations. Snow Crash, Stevenson’s Cyberpunk masterpiece, predicted Google Maps, the existence of ultraconnected-to-the-Internet people (called gargoyles)… and avatars. The origin of this word can be found in Hinduism: an avatar is a projection of a God on Earth, what Frau-Meigs calls ‘an outil représentationnel’, a representational tool to take part in…