Among the open (collaborative) design experiences and the design-Driven Innovation strategies there is a brand new area still to be discovered. This territory is inhabited by few design entrepreneurs [...]
Renewed discovery of forgotten knowledge, sharing and deepening of hobbies, new friends and relationships, exhibitionism, amusements, etc. The list of private ways to use social networks, and of course [...]
It is too late to apply for the bursary in Synthetic Aesthetics: the deadline for submitting the applying form was set on the 31st March 2010. The call for [...]
On 25-26 March at the University of Bradford in England it will take place the 7th meeting of the convention Women in Games. This meeting is hosted every year [...]
A new innovation in medical software', 'Innovation is the hearth of everything we do', 'The House of Innovation', 'Our innovation is back', these are the slogans that some multinational [...]
The 'Digital Creativity' review (september 2009, Vol. 20) has recently published a special issue dedicated to the speeches to the Completing The Circle conference organized by the Lansdown Centre [...]
The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe organized in March 2009 a seminary reserved to young researcher, policy-makers, youth organizations and young people coming from [...]
Weareable technologies are one of the most heralded examples of coexistence with new technologies in the everyday life. Whether they function as medical or sports aid, or they are [...]
May 7, 1959, we are at the University of Cambridge, at the annual Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer . A British physicist and author holds a conference entitled The Two [...]
The slogan elected by the European Commission for2009 year of creativity and innovation was imagine - create - innovate (European Year of Innovation and Creativity - EYCI). dare una [...]
Darwin is turning 200 years old and we must admit that if we consider this period of time by the topicality of his scientific work, he doesn't look his [...]
Science Journalism's Hope and Despair' is the fruit of a year and a half monitoring of the media and came to existence in a particularly important period for science [...]
It is no accident that the next Social Networking World Forum taking place on 9 and 10 March at the Olympia Conference Centre in London has an auspice as [...]
(Italiano) La quarta conferenza annuale del dottorato transatlantico di studi Berlino-New York che si tenuta dal 25 al 27 settembre 2008 a New York, costituisce un'ottima occasione per [...]
(Italiano) Dal 17 al 19 ottobre, a San Rafael (California) si tenuta la 19° edizione della conferenza Bioneers; stiamo parlando di un forum di scenario che sostiene le [...]
(Italiano) Siamo abituati a concepire le droghe come sostanze alteranti le capacit raziocinanti degli individui, ma cosa succede quando la stessa razionalit, in certi ambienti istituzionalizzati del pensiero, come [...]
In its almost fifteen years of life, the Internet has become an well-constructed data environment which closer and closer mirrors the information exchange that peoples society. [...]
Beth Kolko is an Associate Professor of Technological Communication at the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington . [...]
(Italiano) Non ancora stata scritta una storia dell''invisibile' nella scienza eppure i presupposti ci sarebbero, perlomeno per una storia culturale, se non, ancora meglio, una storia metodologica. [...]
Alex Steffen is one of the most renowned voices as far as environmental sustainability and studies on the social impact of technology are concerned. From his biography emerge collaborations [...]
(Italiano) La tecnologia espande la nostra coscienza o la incapsula? é questo uno dei temi del testo Technology Matters, dello storico comparatista David E. Nye pubblicato nel 2006. Un [...]
The first February the German magazine for the 'young research' Sciencegarden opened a request for bids called 'City in present, past and future' (Die Stadt in Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und [...]
The 15 th January 2008 Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) started The Observatory, a new observatory about science information cover and the journalism world environment. [...]
(Italiano) Nel settembre 2007 si tenuto presso l'Universit di Westminster a Londra la conferenza Internationalising Media Studies: Imperative and Impediments. La rivista Global Media and Communication , tra [...]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the China Association for Science and Technology (Cast) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were the protagonist of Beijing [...]
On 27th September Helga Nowotny ( http://www.helga-nowotny.at/ ) took part in the seminar Scienza Tecnologia e Societ (Science Technology and Society) organized by the University of Trento . The [...]
(Italiano) Nel giugno 2007, sulla prestigiosa rivista ISIS (The History of Science Society), Graham Burnett, storico della scienza presso la Princeton University, ha proposto l'interessante focus 'Science and the [...]
(Italiano) Uno dei meriti del lavoro Territory, Authority, Rights di Saskia Sassen di riuscire a proporre un'analisi dei mutamenti moderni che parte dal periodo medievale per arrivare a [...]
(Italiano) Una settore sempre pi importante degli studi sulla comunicazione scientifica si avvale di ricerche microsociologiche. La microsociologia - semplifico per ragioni di cronaca - si occupa principalmente del [...]
(Italiano) Nei Quaderni del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale dell'Universit di Trento apparso recentemente un contributo degno di attenzione di Lorenzo Beltrame sul fenomeno della 'fuga dei [...]
(Italiano) In materia tecnologica, il linguaggio giornalistico, soprattutto quello dei quotidiani, ci ha abituato alla retorica delle invenzioni. Sarebbe altrettanto importante attivare un discorso serio su strumenti che possano [...]
(Italiano) Language and the Scientific Imagination il titolo del Call of Paper che la International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) propone per una conferenza che [...]
In San Francisco, from 15th to 19th 2007 there will be the meeting Science by the Bay. The annual conference is organized by the American Association for the Advancement [...]
During the meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago from the 26 th to 30 th November has been presented the new system Globus MEDICUS [...]
It's singular how often the real experiences of the net are neglected from the public to the prejudice of intangible theories which predict whatever paradise in internet and in [...]
The exhibit Körper, Gesicht und Seele is one of the many events that in the last years have developed around the body. The contents focus on the typification of [...]
The tradition of the modern historical thought induces us to think about art and science as two separate entities. On one hand science, the reign of the rational, the [...]
Collaboration is one of the most consolidated scientific practices. Scientific collaboration derives from the increasing knowledge specialization, from the complexity of investigation problems and from the increase of technological [...]
From May 26 th to May 28 th 2006, at the Stanford University Law School a conference will be held, entitled 'Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights' Human enhancement [...]
Science of communication is more and more moving away from an overall social subject. This science interdisciplinary par excellence is specialised in subfields and has created fences frequently off-limits, [...]
Nowadays a diffused sense of guilt is perceptible when pronouncing the word global, one of the most misused and poly-semantic terms used over the last twenty years, and equally [...]
After more than ten years since the official born of the Internet structure, the concept of memory togheter with computer is now common, so that is now acceptable a [...]
Artificial Life born from a promising interaction between evolutionist research and informatics: in the computer simulation environment a togetherness of instructionist technology and selection processes are applied, taken from [...]
On the opposite pole of pessimists outrance there's a thought current that has a positive and maybe positivist attitude towards future: I'm talking about supporters of cryonics therapy. [...]
(Italiano) Katrina e Rita sono gli ultimi uragani che hanno riportato in primo piano il tema del cambio climatico. Tale fenomeno viene spesso associato alle catastrofi naturali: sintomi del [...]
(Italiano) Prevedere il futuro una delle attivit fondamentali del pensiero dell'uomo perché prevedere significa progettare le attivit in modo efficace, con risparmio di energia, evitando errori a volte [...]
(Italiano) Il concetto di Singolarit tecnologica fu coniato nel 1993 dal professore in computer science Vernor Vinge. Secondo Vinge, entro il 2030, avremo a disposizione le tecnologie necessarie a [...]
(Italiano) Due anni fa, Owen H. Lynch ha proposto uno studio sistematico sulla comunicazione umoristica. Partendo dallo stato dell'arte degli studi sull'umorismo, ha elaborato alcuni modelli di comunicazione umoristica [...]
(Italiano) Nel saggio apparso nel novembre 2004 Future S&T management policy issues-2025 global scenarios, sulla rivista Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Jerome Glenn e Theodore J. Gordon riprendono alcuni [...]
(Italiano) Lo studio delle tecnologie della comunicazione, ma il discorso vale per le tecnologie in generale, nel corso del XIX e XX secolo si parcellizzato in numerosi approcci [...]
(Italiano) Archive.org, con la sua WayBackmachine, una soluzione conosciuta al bisogno insopprimibilmente umano di storicizzare. In questo caso il motore di ricerca riporta, se possibile, la storia di [...]
(Italiano) In questo senso, pochi di noi non conoscono la definizione di Societ dell' informazione. Tale formula ebbe molteplici origini culturali e politiche: in Giappone l'antropologo Tadao Umesao ginegli [...]