lo Squaderno (Sep 2009)
Don’t write it that way! Politicization and appropriation of virtual space
Abstract
During the late 1980s and the 1990s many western societies were fascinated by the promise of a Global Village and marked by interest in other cultures. Travelling the globe and wearing indigenous cloth increasingly developed from being niche tastes into almost a mainstream fashion. During the last decade this interest was more than amplified by the development of internet technology – from email to chat to social network technology. As a consequence, it has become quite normal to stay in touch with hundreds of people, not seldom distributed around the globe.
