Cultural Snapshots - New online publication series
26/10/2001
Proboscis announces a new online publishing series: Cultural Snapshots
Cultural Snapshots are brief cultural analysis documents published alongside research projects. They are intended to provoke comment and debate on the contexts in which research by Proboscis is carried out. Cultural SnapshotS is part of Proboscis' SoMa: social matrices think tank programme.
The first in the series is:
A New Cultural Revolution: pervasive information in the new world order
This essay looks at the impact of the recent attacks in New York & Washington on the knowledge society and the development of 'convergent' services as part of a social and cultural response. It proposes the integration of wireless communications more deeply into Civil Society by devising civic applications (in addition to existing commercial services) for the new 'digital commons'.
