presentation by Evgeny Morozov at European bloggers Unconference in Amsterdam during Picnic CrossMedia Week, late Sept 2007

1. East-West Divide on the Web Different needs, different stories by Evgeny Morozov, September 27, 2007

2. Source: Valleywagl Are we talking past each other? Source: Valleywagl Source: Valleywagl

4. How receptive is the Internet to non-English speakers?

7. Whose story is more important? or

8. Pictures not words

15. The “true” history of Web2.0

16. But this “cartoon” means almost nothing to most users in the developing world...

17. Same tools; different causes vs

18. Chocolate shops around the world

19. Or land distribution in Bahrain?

21. Mobile phones are an even better example

35. Ambivalence of Technology “ technology is not a thing in the ordinary sense of the term, but an "ambivalent" process of development suspended between different possibilities... technology is not a destiny but a scene of struggle. It is a social battlefield...[it's] a parliament of things on which civilizational alternatives are debated and decided” Andrew Feenberg

36. Subversive rationalization “ Differences in the way social groups interpret and use technical objects are not merely intrinsic but make a difference in the nature of the objects themselves. What the object is for the groups that ultimately decide its fate determines what it becomes as it is redesigned and improved over time...” Andrew Feenberg

38. Whoever is capable of this

40. is also capable of this...

41. and this...

44. Thank you! Questions?