Few days ago I visited Moscow in order to participate in an exciting event. It was a first birthday of unique project: “Teplitsa Socialnih Technologiy” (Greenhouse of Social Technologies). In order to understand the distinctive role of this project, one need to make a...
The recent Israeli operation in Gaza strip (“Pillar of Defense”) provided another proof for increasing role of the Internet in modern warfare. An argument that conflicts take place not only in physical, but also in virtual space cannot surprise anyone anymore. Online...
I am a doctoral student in London School of Economics (LSE). I work on a PhD about the Internet's role in time of natural disasters.
I was born in Russia, lived in Israel and the U.S. and currently based in UK. But actually I am a citizen of British Airways and resident of Starbucks who lives in a space of flows and conducts daily mass-self communication.
I am not sure if it gets colder or we face warming, if it's glocal or global, if it's day or night, but it's swarming outside. Sometimes it looks like chaos, but actually it has some order. And even if the complexity of system means that there is nothing to do but to follow the chaotic swarms, I still believe in the power of individual to shape the structure. For this purpose we should engage critically with global swarming flows. This blog is a space of my self-reflexivity.
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