NetTribe Project

In the following pages, you can find some topics and hypotheses about:

Virtual Communities:

We are going to analyse (following the last book, of Paolo Dell'Aquila, TELEMATIC TRIBES), if computer- mediated communication can encourage the birth of any forms of electronic democracy.The experiences of newsgroup and mailing-lists (particolarly in civic networks) demonstrate the possibility of having a "productive consumption", which, by using new media, increase the civic sense and open new spaces of public dialogue.

Link

You can finds some links to italian virtual communities.

Ecology of consumption:

This is the title of the first book of Paolo dell'Aquila. Ecology of consumption is a social pattern towards the reduction of consumption, together with a new imagery, which integrates seduction and rationality, quality and price. The new (post-modern) consumer builds a life-project that allows him to select the plurality of goods and advertisement stimuli and to balance the natural environment with the social ecosystem. The consumer is able to integrate the principle of pleasure with ethical values.
 
About the Author: Paolo Dell'Aquila

Here you can find my interests and a bibliography of my works.

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