Editorial: Cosmopolitanism versus Traditionalism and the need to talk about a different divide
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چکیده
This Journal has dedicated two of its three issues this year to Data: open data and data literacy. These two related concepts appear as fundamental to deal with a precarious emerging world order: a world awash in bytes, shrunk thanks to the technologies that are at the very base of “community informatics”, but that appears to be dealing badly with such an ease of access to information, having fallen for a renewed notion of “community” that denies both difference and a collective perspective on the future. Our world appears to be shrinking in purpose, with many just trying to defend themselves from alleged invasions. The truth is just another victim, and facts are lost in the mayhem.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Community Informatics
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016