Children of Europa
How young people are changing Europe
New Europe is not a place, it’s a young person. Committees, constitutions and commissions may hold Europe together as a political project, but it is people that hold it together as a cultural entity. This project will look at the aspirations of geographical Europe’s youngest generation, focusing particular on the way they make and exchange new-media with one another.
- Instant messaging 'a linguistic renaissance' for teens - tech - 15 May 2008 - New Scientist Tech Instant messaging 'a linguistic renaissance' for teens - tech - 15 May 2008 - New Scientist Tech 16th May 2008
- Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle against the censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle against the censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk 8th May 2008
- One Minute Film & Video Festival in Romania one minute film festival in romania - not the same as the oneminutesjr 21st April 2008
- Shirky: RIP The Consumer, 1900-1999 In retrospect, mass media's position in the 20th century was an anomoly and not an inevitability. There have always been both one-way and two-way media -- pamphlets vs. letters, stock tickers vs. telegraphs -- but in 20th century the TV so outstripped the town square that we came to assume that 'large audience' necessarily meant 'passive audience', even though size and passivity are unrelated. With the Internet, we have the world's first large, active medium, but when it got here no one was ready for it, least of all the people who have learned to rely on the consumer's quiescent attention while the Lucky Strike boxes tapdance across the screen. 10th April 2008
- Shirky: Communities, Audiences, and Scale communities have strong upper limits on size, while audiences can grow arbitrarily large. Put another way, the larger a group held together by communication grows, the more it must become like an audience -- largely disconnected and held together by communication traveling from center to edge -- because increasing the number of people in a group weakens communal connection. 10th April 2008
- Shirky: The Future of Europe Lies In Email The current cohort of European under 25s have several important characteristics that make them immune to cheap nationalism -- they are the first generation whose parents didn't live through WWII, and they are richer, more mobile, and speak better English (the official second language of the 21st century) than any generation in history. Add to this that they are comfortable with the internet, that they can work anywhere they like, and that places like easyEverything are springing up to satisfy untapped demand for communications, and you get a generation of rootless cosmopolitans, people who are unimpressed with arguments that they should tolerate unemployment, or high prices, or limited horizons, simply in order to defend national characteristics that boil down to little more than a preference for different kinds of cheese. 10th April 2008
- Feudalism 2.0 (or serfing the web) - Own Your Identity I don’t have the freedom to move the facets that make up my online self from Facebook to LinkedIn or Myspace, my content and relationships are the property of Facebook, as are the words exchanged with friends; I can’t message my Myspace friends from Facebook. My content is their content, my relationships are their relationships and my communications are their communications. I can escape and start a new life somewhere else, but if I do I do so faceless, barren and alone. 9th April 2008
- Big Think - We Are What You Think Like YouTube but designed to be populated by 'ideas'. So it seems there's basically less happy slapping, more Kwame Anthony Appiah. 2nd April 2008
- Guidance | MuslimYouth.net | guidance and support for Muslim youth The aim of this project is to make a documentary demonstrating your thoughts, views and opinions on the world that we live in. muslimyouth.net will run a workshop in March, which will be attended by a diverse range of young Muslims from different cultural and ethnical backgrounds. The workshop will give you an opportunity to discuss issues that are facing you: whether its gun/gang crime, litter in your local areas or global warming.