Storytelling
Rights for authors, publishers and readers
Mariana Eguaras
For five hundred years, intellectual property and copyright have been the cornerstone on which a huge number of business models have been built.
Storytelling
Challenges and Opportunities for the Publishing Industry
Martín Gómez
The publishing industry is generating heated debate around the reconfiguration of the sector. It has become necessary to reflect together this evolution.
Commons
Under-the-Radar Publications
Anna Ramos
Between a collection, an archive and a reference area, La Fanzinoteca is inspired by the spirit of amateurism and by a passion for fanzines and micropublishing.
Commons
The Wealth of Networks
Mayo Fuster Morell
A review of the book The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler.
Technology
The Other Net Behind the Great Wall (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Chinanet is an autonomous internet, separated from the rest of the word and characterised by a different usage that is more about performance than participation.
Technology
The Other Net Behind the Great Wall (I)
Sandra Álvaro
China’s cultural heritage, along with the strong control mechanisms that accompany the process of opening up have led to the development of Chinanet.
Commons
Technology
Reclaiming the City through Play
Cristina Sáez
The use of new technologies in cities through play is a way of putting the use of public space back in the hands of citizens.
Technology
Africa Recycles and Creates Technology
Carlos Bajo
In the midst of e-waste traffickers, Africans are endeavouring to find ways to breathe new life into these discarded materials.
Commons
Culture
Genealogy of a Participatory Community: Spanish Fandom
Elisabet Roselló
What is the situation of the fandom in Spain, where the mass media and consumer culture developed under a dictatorship?
Storytelling
Expanding books and Post-Digital Print
Alessandro Ludovico
In the post-digital era, print can be culturally subversive, particularly when its unchangeability is strategically used instead of rejected as obsolete.
Commons
New Political Communities
Jorge Carrión
Not democrat, not republican, not socialist, not capitalist, anarchist or ultraliberal. As I said: new.