Comments on: Network Society course (I). Juan Freire: About the importance of the Network Society

By: Ismael Peña-López

Ismael Peña-López — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:43:54 +0000

Gràcies Marc! / ¡Gracias Marc! ;)

By: MarcG

MarcG — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:39:39 +0000

A catalan abstract of this session is available here. A spanish abstract of this session is available here.

By: Sociedad Red: cambios sociales, organizaciones y ciudadanos » Finalizó “Sociedad Red”: primeras impresiones

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:21:18 +0000

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By: También las élites están conectadas, a su modo « ruizdequerol

También las élites están conectadas, a su modo « ruizdequerol — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:40:15 +0000

[...] las élites están conectadas, a su modo Juan Freire iniciaba su parlamento de apertura de las recientes jornadas sobre la Sociedad Red en Barcelona enmarcando así la situación [...]

By: ruizdequerol

ruizdequerol — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:59:08 +0000

I beg to differ from 50% of the initial reflections.

Are élites truly disconnected? I don’t think so. They are connected among them. They connect in a different way than the ‘rest of us’. In many cases they can still afford not to connect to the rest of us, unless they want to.

One current example. An élite bundles subprime mortgages into financial products so sophisticated that almost no one understand them. Then, some of those products end up as a Lehman bond in the hands of a normal guy in Spain who made the mistake of trusting his financial advisor, who might himself had made the mistake of believing his financial advisor. Some one on the elite made the profit; and because THEY ARE CONNECTED, were able to transfer he losses to others.

We, the ones that connect, might be somewhat too complacent.