Matteo Andreozzi - L.I.N.K. Faculty. Understandig Connections, Making Connections

McLuhan Galaxy Conference 2011 - Slides on http://goo.gl/Re97T

The main aim of this paper is to make some remarks about how new media can play a key role in the final fulfillment of the cultural changes the Western anthropocentric civilization has to do to handle the ecological and social crises of our century. I claim that hypertext, in particular, could be decisive in helping to tackle different problems related to the contemporary global big bang. I argue that the World Wide Web can help people to develop or strengthen a faculty that I suggest naming L.I.N.K. (Life, Innovation, Nature, and Knowledge), with the purpose of understanding through the use of a single term all the main areas covered by the linking thinking shift we need. I also provide some concrete suggestions for the social movements involved with this cultural change to promote their theories and intentions in a more effective way through the use of the World Wide Web.

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Education

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• McLuhan Galaxy Conference 2011
• Ecosofia
• Deep Ecology
• Marshall McLuhan
• Internet
• Environmentalism
• New Media
• University Speech