Imaginese que un dia se despierta y se encuentra con que practicamente todas las actividades que puede desarrollar fuera de su entorno familiar se han convertido en experiencias B+de pagoB; . Pues bien, segun Jeremy Rifkin, este panorama desolador formaria parte de un cambio fundamental que se esta produciendo en la naturaleza de los negocios: la irrupcion de la B+era del accesoB; , una epoca radicalmente distinta a todo lo que conociamos hasta ahora. En la economia hipercapitalista, comprar cosas en los mercados y tener propiedades son algo obsoleto, pues lo que se impone como norma es el acceso B+puntualB; a casi toda clase de servicios a traves de las inmensas redes comerciales que operan en el ciberespacio. Ha llegado un momento en que pagamos mas por la experiencia de usar cosas -en forma de suscripciones, cuotas de ingreso y anticipos de pago-- que por las cosas en si mismas. En todas partes las empresas venden sus propiedades y reducen su inventario, arriendan sus equipamientos y subcontratan las actividades: es decir, se vuelven B+ingravidasB; . Y la posesion de bienes fisicos, antano considerada un activo valioso, es contemplada ahora, en el ambito empresarial, como una desventaja. A partir de todo esto, Rifkin afirma que la aventura capitalista, que comenzo con la mercantilizacion de bienes y la tenencia de propiedades, llega a su culminacion con la mercantilizacion del tiempo y la experiencia humana. Y de ahi a un sistema sustentado en la venta de la propia experiencia cultural solo hay un paso. Los viajes y el turismo global, las ciudades y los parques tematicos, la moda y la cocina, los juegos y los deportes, la musica, el cine, la television e incluso las causas socialesestan convirtiendose rapidamente en el centro de una economia cuyo objetivo comercial ba

"Esta compilaciaon de artaiculos que fueron publicados por el autor en los diarios, La Informaciaon de Santiago, Diario Libre y en 'Clave Digital' entre Julio de 2007 hasta la desapariciaon de este aultimo en Agosto de 2010, contiene una selecciaon de temas nacionales e internacionles."

This volume interrogates what "global" means in the context of "communication," and who benefits from global communication practices and industries. Emerging scholars contribute their unique perspectives in communication scholarship, charting innovative directions for research that connects empirical evidence with pressing questions of social significance. This critical reflection leads to considering problems that result from the way global communication becomes mobilized, in the practice of journalism and development as well as the ICT industry. Global Communication defines the term "globalization," through understanding the cultural geography of global, regional, national, and local media. Critical evaluations of media production, distribution, and consumption practices, within cultural contexts, offer insights into how people "mediate" the global. Chapters draw attention to communications in Latin America, the Arab World, and South Asia, complicating territorial boundaries and exploring how local audience and industry practices work within global as well as local configurations.

This book deals with the Internet’s influence on television. The traditional value chain has been transformed, giving rise to new forms of television that foster user generated content. We no longer dream about interactivity, but participation. Accordingly, the “digital natives” like to tag programs and films in the cyberspace, each conveniently tagged so that other users can find it. Although many questions have yet to be answered, this decade’s motto may be “the tag is the medium”. However, on-demand television is unlikely to replace mass TV. The Web 2.0 has brought an end to the “my TV” concept of the dotcom age and may put “our TV” in its place. These changes pose serious problems. The industry is facing the real threat of revenue cannibalization because current online business models are not financially rewarding. The Internet is not yet a profitable market for programs that require additional revenues to advertising. To date, the box office, video and premium television have been the main sources of revenue of the audiovisual industry. This book explores the factors at play in this shift.

An exploratory study, based on group discussions and in-depth interviews of real managers, that examines different aspects of the life cycle to clarify why so few women get to the top. It offers advice on how to establish priorities, and explores existing stereotypes within organizations regarding women in upper management.

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games – the origin of all cultural activity, the dialectic chaos-order, axial civilizations – the germ of our time, and the struggle between generations – a factor of social transformation, and, within the second, creative capitalism, creative work in the context of the global economy of risk and uncertainty, and representative democracy. However, these two concepts are not isolated, but deeply interrelated, in a way that explains how creative originality builds a temporal narrative. It has been dislocated in late modernity and, with it, creativity has been broken.

In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban space loose continue to give cities life and vitality. The book examines physical spaces and how people use them. Contributors discuss a wide range of recreational, commercial and political activities; some are conventional, others are more experimental. Some of the activities occur alongside the intended uses of planned public spaces, such as sidewalks and plazas; other activities replace former uses, as in abandoned warehouses and industrial sites. The thirteen case studies, international in scope, demonstrate the continuing richness of urban public life that is created and sustained by urbanites themselves Presents a fresh way of looking at urban public space, focusing on its positive uses and aspects. Comprises 13 detailed, well-illustrated case studies based on sustained observation and research by social scientists, architects and urban designers. Looks at a range of activities, both everyday occurrences and more unusual uses, in a variety of public spaces -- planned, leftover and abandoned. Explores the spatial and the behavioral; considers the wider historical and social context. Addresses issues of urban research, architecture, urban design and planning. Takes a broad international perspective with cases from New York, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Guadalajara, Athens, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Bangkok, Kandy, Buffalo, and the North of England.