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Category Archives: Technology
The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism
The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism from Maas Media on Vimeo.
Journalism and the role of mass media were in the past two centuries defined by the dichotomy of production and consumption. The publication of the news by an elite few, meant for solitary consumption in living rooms, trains and libraries around the world encouraged a culture [...]
Guarding the Gates
Ever since the advent of modernization, technology has been a primary ally to achieve political goals. It goes without saying that it plays a fundamental role in dealing with migration matters too. Within the process of selection of the migrants permitted to stay and those having to return home from European soil, technology is what [...]
Posted in Issue 3 - Migration, Technology
Tagged Europe, Fortress Europe, Immigration, Technology
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Technology for Ten Billion People
Reinder vanTijen, Founder of Demotech
Climate justice and technology are intrinsically linked subjects. Technology is at the heart of the industrial revolution, which on the one hand brought about the prosperity and development we currently enjoy in the North.
On the other hand, it is also the root cause of increased greenhouse gas emissions and ongoing climate [...]
Technology Workshop
We discussed the issue of technologies in the field of media, how they work and how they can induce change. We came up with some kind of analytical framework to look at media technologies in terms of
Accessibility
Capital Intensive vs. Low-Cost in terms of production, Dependency on Power
Effectiveness
defined in terms of outreach
Time
socio-technological development, in order identify [...]
Malawi windmill boy with big fans
For this first issue of the ‘Technology’ section of our maas-media newsletter, we chose an article that relates to alternative globalization in a very personal way…It is the story of William Kamkwamba, who at the age of 15 built a windmill out of scrap material in his village in Malawi, producing electricity for his family’s [...]
Invention of the Month
The Temple of a Million Bottles
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew is also called ‘the Temple of a Million bottles’ and is a Buddhist temple in Thailand, in the Sisaket province, located 400 miles away from the capital, Bangkok. In 1984 the monks began their collection of beer bottles and soon they collected so many that [...]
Posted in Issue 1 - Alter Globalization, Technology
Tagged Invention of the Month, Technology
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