"Democratization online social networks: The case of free Wi-Fi Taltal "
For Gabriel Figueroa
Sociocultural Anthropology
power networks
10:00 pm, Taltal . II Region of Antofagasta, Chile. South .
indescribable pleasure in mixing the pure ocean air and the warmth of summer taltalino. Children in silence in the corners of lead nitrate steep a strange people who are accustomed itching to see them jumping around. The night opens in thousands of stars so far clear that resemble boats, and blur the bottom line between sea and sky of the sky nortino. Say it is the best place on earth for stargazing. Post a tropical climate, everyone wears short. Drums, horns, but some cry that balances between religious fervor and the human need for dance and music. Some days sound like distant echoes and whether the divergence between Our Lady Bay. Ancient continental disputed boundary between Chile and the rest of South America. The town is full of children, full of youthful energy in every corner of the twenty districts of the city. They meet each day more children in these places, not just at night. On the morning of your vacation in the evenings going to the beach, at dusk balls and games area. However
is night when the streets become lax parking and quiet movement that characterizes the people. Silence takes over Taltal. From time to time a home break in the rhythm of reggaeton, a bolero, cumbia, a heartbreaking chives. Perhaps a Mexican bullfight. Predominantly music romance. The heart rules the people and sometimes break the quiet atmosphere, dominated by light poles similar to the slow flight of a dangerous spark that threatens homes, some genuine authentic samples of Chilean cultural heritage in view of the bicentennial. Today, people in business boils mining fever lives copper destination in Asia, the high temperature of the construction and trade explosive pop. Taltal The market seems to be moving strongly in their conquest of the minds, sometimes futile attempt in its clash with the traditions and unique customs of the bay halved by a hill with a virgin on the end accompanied by a huge base station antennas telecommunications, at least two huge lego metals higher. A cross that changes color at night in strange tones hiding behind a device that not only repeats a signal, but also sends the world thousands of binary codes that connect people to the world. The
tranquility can breathe at night. In the distance, televisions flash indoors, and some children play outside. At the corners, sitting on the many walls that adorn the city, in the street, under trees or in very beautiful gardens of some houses. Sitting on the sidewalk. Usually a center that focuses the attention of the group, tapeworms often gather on street corners, in the main square. Sneak look at a high point in the center of Taltal, which like its name, the place is divided into two, the hill of La Virgen. A cross of light dancing pace unhinged tone in a sequence. Children watch every so mesmerized watching the antenna is at your side and try to have lined up your notebook with Wi-Fi antenna on top. Are connected to a global network of content and virtual platforms, freely.
Wi-Fi Community: Wireless networks open to the people.
Democratization and access
In an unusual effort for democratization, Taltal Municipality has launched a project to extend and redistribute the phenomenon of globalization that could offer more benefits to citizenship, network connectivity. Various initiatives, especially the mayor Guillermo Hidalgo and his team essentially adviser in computer topics, Christian Alvarez. Were consolidated in the installation of a transmitting antenna of bytes in the geographic center of Taltal, Cerro de la Virgen specifically. In order to illuminate, that can mean cyber jargon supply network service, the majority of the population. It is an act that is aligned with the purposes of the government's so-called PDAs, but designed and implemented through the efforts of the municipality as an autonomous unit of local government, mobilized by their convictions regarding the local action. More than anything, is an expression Taltalina society within current and emerging global trends on of movements and events and people connected in a network of networks, which bring Taltal with the world, and bring the world to Taltal. Not only refers to those who can afford this service, who have the financial ability to install broadband or cable. It is an open project to the entire community. For now, those who can afford a PC or own a laptop. Or go to cybercafes to Biblio node in House of Culture "Sady Zañartu Bustos" , or closely in their respective high schools, we must add closed during the summer. This fact will discuss later.
The size of a digital lighting project, as it is technically called the fact of turning an antenna that provides wireless network service open to the community, in the first place is hard to understand technical terms, and even more to evaluate, to the extent that its results rarely glimpsed by the proximity of putting up, but seem common global in their impact on the population, in the sense of access and learning about their use. Facilitators should be an obligation of the state in an effort democratization, which may be the only way to revive and even to Chile with the first world. These facilitators start with digital connectivity, but must follow a path towards integration urgent community as a whole. Equipment, workshops, courses, and a host of activities that bring people Taltal the phenomenon of globalization, especially the Internet as chief among its many consequences.
Emerging Social and Cultural Capital
Access to wificomunitaria can only have the greatest consequence and benefit , also connecting people to each Taltal, creating or reaffirming networks that can provide the most important capital in the dynamic progressive technocratic societies: the social and cultural capital of individuals organized in a degree of autonomy Unpublished about past social processes. Overcoming the traditional barriers of status, property, the clusters of class and social belonging. Networks and attachments that may reflect the best of people, memories lost identities dictatorial at night, spinning efforts in the sport, start mass culture, witness the enormous and heritage missed takes and shapes our identity watered hills and streets in l in houses and objects, which may have its greatest value in people and the stories of popular culture, the essence of the hidden or invisible Taltalinos away, excluded from the public.
Generate dialogue and participation among all stakeholders, taking the anonymous voices and stories forgotten. Encourage citizen participation in local and national government, provide tools in the service of civil society, which is the tax basis of rationality and the state, at least in his speech. That is why virtual communities, reunion point in the network and point to specific actions in the society, is a real possibility now possible, in terms of liberalization of the network as a free service.
Innovative strategy between the state and chile @ s.
As a principle of integration and social progress, democratic societies must demonstrate that its leaders, elites and democratically elected leaders are interested in contacting and bringing the crowds into real improvements projects and the heterogeneity of voters and individuals. The association the people with power, which is a sign of mobility and egalitarianism proposed by the government as a social strategy of integrating a social state. The long way from words to action. Connect people to each other, but in their own interests and needs. And provide effective and appropriate framework for these interests and associativity are framed in personal development, community and societal of all citizens, not just those who can afford it.
Today, the territoriality of Taltal is crossed by particles that carry energy and information on whether messages, ideologies, advertising, publications, documents, waves, emotions, business, the seeds of social networking sites, photos, information, news and innumerable positioned so that especially young people, who have more contact and affinity with new technologies. In a short walk one can find these urban tribes across the country, and seeing them interact with society in ways similar trend as their association. These young people communicate and generate their own identity and imaginary, the seed of political association, and this reflex can be seen in their habits, customs, often astonish the old generations for their behavior, their performances. They are learning and discovering attitudes and concepts alien to the local, yet are redistributed to the network, a mutual contact and socialization with the territorial dimension of the near. Is this a development strategy that emerges from how fast the fire to a town with bites, so complex, coordinated planning and redistribution of human and technological resources among Taltalinos. And those who are more connected, and emerge as future adults in local society.
What also appears as virtual walls of marginality. That soon not only for its rebellious speech, posture unfinished perverse preference, can be dismissed as negative or wrong. However, it is a good way of libel and called Liming. The alternatives are the same at a global level. Netiquette , education, promotion, publishing and interconnectivity between spaces and people's voices. Culture not only in the monolithic sense of the hegemonic and morally upright, classical or academically accepted. Culture in the sense of a process rather than a static picture , features, eccentric or milestones of power is a set of complex dimensions of real of the politically accepted, the provisions of the oral folk tale mysterious and dark.
diversity in the background, yet washes and weaves the history of taltalino capita, as well as identity dimension complexion worth the Etos du his daily practice. The Other looks familiar, close, but due to the alienation caused by the hard work at a promising time and abundance, people move away and poured into his house and inner worlds. Cases of crimes, criminals, perverse, even authentic samples of hatred subjects or actors are produced and spread, covering less than a drop in the huge space of virtual, in the global spectrum. Education and providing not only space and equipment, but programs and workshops in digital culture, knowledge of its openness and dialogue, and with a tremendous emphasis on development tools and devices and resources of products and TYC'sy free services on the web in the recent blogosphere of Web 2.0, with everything involving new technologies and successful social network resources, which combine to millions on their sites and portals. And now send about business strategies, advertising and policies in relation to their size, and essentially, your phone and volume deterritorialized subjects.
Tourism and interconnectivity
tourism and marine activities and products, expensive delicacy of modern international cuisine, may have a virulent explosion if well managed the flow between the institutions that can provide the private and state agencies, and the public, which is the sum of the diversity of opinions and perspectives of people. As well as their own work, showcase their work and likely realization. Music, movies, painting, drawing, are invaluable place in the almost infinite virtual space of the network. Subjectivity becomes a showcase for our country to be networked, and best and worst of our shows without limitations. Business, finance, taxes, everything can be done in network. Education, culture, communication, can be acquired and redistributed without restrictions of time or space, and in this case, access.
's free web 2.0 content and communications tools in online social networks, and increasing the impact of cyber regional level. Further dissemination and visualization of existing needs and offers a city in the making. With a glorious past are about to take shape. The local tourist infrastructure is on the rise, on one side by the large number of residential offer picked by mining, and secondly by the sheer taltalinos mass of living abroad, and that often gather on the net, despite the distances and time scales, and remember Taltal promote or talk about on their land.
This free distribution, provides a social marketing space in the word of mouth (often more appealing to tourism since it implies a personal opinion or experience immersed reliable accounts), or keyboard to keyboard, all grouped into networks or sites conversation. Tourism is growing every day, and thus the income of the economy endogenously. The promotion and attraction of people from the marine and mining products to foreign countries Taltal gives a prestige that could be utilized for the development of this actvidad, as well as the emerging, but still insifuciente tourist activities related to ecotourism and tourism cultural, archeological sites focused or ethnic character.
ESO Paranal Observatory scientists, mining companies crowd of hundreds of workers, groups or families who know Taltal the site, its national media presence but low enough beginning, travelers from the north, families returning for the summer, traders and children, many children. They come with their parents or go home in the summer. These children find places and activities provided by the municipality, or small traders who exploit this niche in places like the plaza, or city parks.
This concurrence of tourists and visitors associated with the work of the municipality on the Internet, is reinforced in the generation of new business, the endogenous economic growth. Tourism is booming, and it will experience an unusual rise in the measure that Taltal to play through the web, either as a reference, a beautiful place or a place of business. The will generate local community networks, to the extent that the proposed public Hagn, reinforced by government support.
A special case is the complete and provided the City Museum, the "Museum Capdeville Augusto" has enabled the municipality, along with the address national museums by the strict management of the anthropologist Rodolfo Contreras. Also sponsored by regional government projects, FNDR, and institutions such as the Paranal Observatory. The museum receives daily visits taltalinos or tourists, and describes successful examples of the Atacama Desert Culture and "Monkeys." Another aspect is sponsored by Paranal, which emphasizes knowledge of astronomy and the universe. The museum needs a computing platform and network to be known and stand out as a bright spot in museology and human sciences in the large northern tourist route. It is necessary to include the museum in the country to international tourism topology, as well as primarily in the collective imagination Taltalino, beyond a cultural portal or virtual communities related to education and science. Virtual space exists, and the networks to exercise this power and social citizen.
necessary technological leadership
installation is uncommon, at its root the antenna and the project, an open network for data transmission and multimedia. What stands out to the community Taltalina between the municipalities of Chile are not yet "enlightened" by digital network. And he makes an important member within clusters of municipalities digitized, so you should also encourage the use and practice theory behind cybernetics, internet and digital reality. Taltal should exercise appropriate leadership, supported by the work in the tourism and activities related to social development through culture. In this case the digital coupling in these initiatives with a priority which is indicative of an open approach to the newest trends and avant-garde world. The future use of electricity generators with a working farm, solar panels on the Home School, outstanding cleaning and beautification, and many other projects in maquila, given signs of a modern vision of social reality local, national and global. One that should grow and develop, soar to heights of achievement that require more than pretty early and inaugurations.
is why it should be reflected in discourse and learning experiences which bridge the digital divide of all citizens. Gap between older generations and those who are far from having a computer at home. The benefits are clear, communication is never harmful unless it is controlled by an unhealthy social design, which assumes exclusion and dominance within the soul of mankind. Modernity and in this case, the possibility of approaching the global and local, in just seconds of navigation, can generate explosive networks of affinities and attachments, and many of these can contribute to democracy. The
common global effects in the case of digital networks lies in the behavior of users who are online, and particularly in the global trend of blurring the focus on business in favor of the formation of social networks and bridges that communicate with each other. This is called Web 2.0, Web 1.0 being a phenomenon of rapid expansion in the late nineties and over the past seven years revolutionized communications in the global society, giving rise, hand in hand with an economic process governed by the paradigm of neoliberalism and globalization market development, a sustained social and media convergence in the realm of virtual million of people around the world. The web 1.0 internet start was called, and consisted of trade and services related to international business, coupled with the exchange of information, knowledge and codes among various military industries, scientific, governmental and private. This time factor that unifies and provides the ability to visualize relationships, identifications, secondments, also is an avenue for reporting and citizen oversight is a way to extend and bring individuals to each other through an interface that does not depend on the distances or times everyday reality. The possibilities and opportunities for knowledge and entrepreneurship flourish as citizens get involved, learn and use for itself the tools that deliver global connectivity, which is redistributed to local level, where the first effects are felt in communities efforts to converge they removed the old social policy marginalized, forgotten subjects, gaming communities and knowledge, mass bulletin boards. Particularly emerging youth organizations enter the arena of actors socially relevant.
Social networking Web 2.0 can be ascribed to any type of socialization, but the trend to which we refer prosecutes in the types of socialization that influence and generate identity groups and participation in the social field, this being an endogenous scenario composed of a myriad of networks that crisscross between sí.Estos effects of interconnectivity, essentially lines of communication and socialization, are expressed in the social reality as they develop parallel programs that aim to shorten the called "digital gap", defined as the distance space who are digitally literate, which means that among those who know how to use cyberspace and those in the darkness of prehistory computer.
digital dimension of freedom and the forces of globalization .
freedom is important that you experience when connected to a myriad of pages and websites, satisfying the hunger of the virtual. The growth potential of cultural and social capital are looming nearby, resting on interconnects and nodes of different networks at different levels of socialization emerging. Youth is the largest segment in terms of quantity, but there are signs that groups can live a parallel life inside the network, with personalities and mutated aspects regarding social reality or the consensus that make him an example of tolerance, civic movements excluded and invisible realities. And with some work in between, connecting the local to each other, talking as individuals and as citizens. There dimensions and spaces within the virtual dimensions that overcome some physical sociocultural reality in terms of impact they have on the social phenomenon.
The installation of a WiFi antenna is an innovation that can positively influence the local community. It is a means redistribution of digital democracy, open spaces for dialogue and conversation and technologically cutting-edge media platforms. Connects the community with global reality, with its vices and benefits, and sets a precedent, that the effort will mature in social relations really balanced and equal. It's a step in the development of online social networking company generating wealth in the area of \u200b\u200bconcerted action, and stimulation of public policies and programs needed.
is also diversity in society taltalina contained an example of cultural resistance trying to survive in the cultural whirlwind of Western globalization. The celebration of the religious dances, the Feast of San Pedro, and especially the feast of the celebration of the founding of Taltal are massive samples of local identity, as well as small and anonymous customs, stories, histories and traditions descollarian regarding the dissemination and propagation of the concept of "naturally attractive" in the overall context of special and exotic locales.
But neoliberalism hegemony and rule the Orbis Mundi, and global currents sweep the local conditions. Are important values \u200b\u200band traditions are imbued with the foreign, which may not always be beneficial to families and youth. The differences and swarms of trends and positions on tradition, religion, equity, productivity and education are examples of what taltalino in extent, not limitations that promotes the black side of globalization, mercantilism. The cyber is a powerful tool for powerful networks of people and assignments, and is also a form of freedom when the initiatives of the dimension of the digital, are used to benefit the community, and produce, enhance and redistribute social capital and local culture. The art and sport, associations and groups, virtual communities, community action groups, government action and private initiatives, can be combined in this infrastructure that the Internet provides, and is a resource one that should encourage and promote the adportas digital society.
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