Media, culture and society

An iceberg, overlapping bell curves and the beginning of a new series about other people’s wisdom

I’ve always found it a bit amusing that there is something like APAC (Asia Pacific) as a region. After all, APAC is really half the planet. China, India, Indonesia are huge, obviously. Vietnam had more inhabitants than Germany last time

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An iceberg, overlapping bell curves and the beginning of a new series about other people’s wisdom

I’ve always found it a bit amusing that there is something like APAC (Asia Pacific) as a region. After all, APAC is really half the planet. China, India, Indonesia are huge, obviously. Vietnam had more inhabitants than Germany last time

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Convergence and The Geography of Thought

(This isn’t in Tianzifang, but in Beijing’s Art District.) When I was strolling along a street close to Tianzifang in Shanghai with my friend Christoph in June, we walked past some modern buildings with a Starbucks and two other, similarly

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Convergence and The Geography of Thought

(This isn’t in Tianzifang, but in Beijing’s Art District.) When I was strolling along a street close to Tianzifang in Shanghai with my friend Christoph in June, we walked past some modern buildings with a Starbucks and two other, similarly

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Films About the Human Existence

I don’t see myself as a film or pop culture expert. As Christoph always points out, for someone who’s studied media I’ve seen fuck all. Now I don’t want to explain the difference between media and communication science and film and

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Films About the Human Existence

I don’t see myself as a film or pop culture expert. As Christoph always points out, for someone who’s studied media I’ve seen fuck all. Now I don’t want to explain the difference between media and communication science and film and

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Le Havre

  It doesn’t consider time important. People pay with Euro in Le Havre, but drive old cars. They don’t have telephones and televisions. It could be set at any time in the last 50 years in Europe and still be

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Le Havre

  It doesn’t consider time important. People pay with Euro in Le Havre, but drive old cars. They don’t have telephones and televisions. It could be set at any time in the last 50 years in Europe and still be

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A list of things observed and not necessarily understood in China

It’s been almost 2 months since I got back from my travels to China, Hong Kong and Singapore. In Shanghai and Beijing (where the following photos were taken), I started, together with my friend Christoph, a (non-judgmental) list of things

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A list of things observed and not necessarily understood in China

It’s been almost 2 months since I got back from my travels to China, Hong Kong and Singapore. In Shanghai and Beijing (where the following photos were taken), I started, together with my friend Christoph, a (non-judgmental) list of things

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Thinking About Shanghai

At the moment I am writing this, I am sitting on a not-quite-as-fast-train as the one from Beijing to Shanghai. 1200 km South from Shanghai to Xiamen, a city on an island that everybody only seems to have heard good

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Thinking About Shanghai

At the moment I am writing this, I am sitting on a not-quite-as-fast-train as the one from Beijing to Shanghai. 1200 km South from Shanghai to Xiamen, a city on an island that everybody only seems to have heard good

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Zài Jiàn Beijing. Nǐ hǎo Shanghai.

At this moment I am writing this, I sitting in one of China’s new high speed trains connecting Beijing and Shanghai. We’re traveling at 303 km/h, already out of Beijing and cutting through seemingly endless farmland. It feels ‘slower’ than

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Zài Jiàn Beijing. Nǐ hǎo Shanghai.

At this moment I am writing this, I sitting in one of China’s new high speed trains connecting Beijing and Shanghai. We’re traveling at 303 km/h, already out of Beijing and cutting through seemingly endless farmland. It feels ‘slower’ than

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An Interview with Sol Polo, coordinator of the fadfest on Open Design and Shared Creativity

Before I leave for China, I want to share this interview with you. There’s been a lot going on in the conference circuit with many people I know at the NEXT and Re:Publica and Ignite in Berlin and a lot

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An Interview with Sol Polo, coordinator of the fadfest on Open Design and Shared Creativity

Before I leave for China, I want to share this interview with you. There’s been a lot going on in the conference circuit with many people I know at the NEXT and Re:Publica and Ignite in Berlin and a lot

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Getting started on China.

As I wrote in my last post, I’ll fly out to China on June 1st, together with Christoph, a friend of mine. Within China, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen are fixed destinations. We’ll travel by train, then south to Hong Kong,

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Getting started on China.

As I wrote in my last post, I’ll fly out to China on June 1st, together with Christoph, a friend of mine. Within China, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen are fixed destinations. We’ll travel by train, then south to Hong Kong,

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Unexpected Creative Industries

A couple of weeks ago, I spent a school day with my brother’s girlfriend/significant other, an elementary school teacher here in Vienna. There’s so much talk about teachers and the education system and I’ve always been interested in this kind

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Unexpected Creative Industries

A couple of weeks ago, I spent a school day with my brother’s girlfriend/significant other, an elementary school teacher here in Vienna. There’s so much talk about teachers and the education system and I’ve always been interested in this kind

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