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The decline of telephone companies in the internet imaginary

Luciano Petullà · January 19, 2022

boy looking at smartphone applications

The communication allure of enterprises in the web In the works of imagination – as we know – it’s easy to find accurate predictions about our life evolution associated with that of technologies. Even forgetting the great amount of existing literature on the topic, it’s sufficient to take some works elaborated by advertising, as an Italian newspaper just showed us, recalling the advertising campaign “You will” launched by AT&T in 1993 – the campaign, created by N.W. Ayer & Partners and directed by the gifted David Fincher, displays AT&T’s next commercial …

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Around digital marketing responsability

Luciano Petullà · January 29, 2018

wall of surveillance cameras

In internet everybody knows you can be a dog Time has gone, socially and technologically speaking,  since comics on New Yorker (1993) drowed by Peter Steiner cleverly summarized both powerness and riskies about online interactions, so becoming a meme on internet anonymity condition. The phrase “on internet nobody knows you’re a dog” referred to its colleague could be understood at least in a double meaning. From one side, as a relational and democratic liberation from material considerations such as class, genre, body apparency, age… and, here, also of species, an …

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Driverless Car

Luciano Petullà · June 13, 2017

woman reading book while car drives itself

Promises and nightmares around autonomous vehicle In a world appearing always more chaotic, driverless vehicle project seems highly supponent in its desire to completely automate cars eliminating human driver, meaning implementing cars which are able to master all surrounding events to smoothly arrive to the suggested targeting place. We will get into the car without worries, and our intent will be only to relax and engage in some ways, sure to be carried wherever we asked, closed in a sort of cocoon that works both as a form of teletransportation and as immunization from …

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The intermediations of design

Luciano Petullà · November 29, 2014

books on design

From Lollipop to the enchanted objects Although resulting quite elusive and so equally fascinating, having to deal with design as topic became a “must” even for people interested in communication technology since the iPhone has been launched in 2007. Meantime, centrifugal explosion of digital media in people's social and personal life, alongside with multiple use of digital interfaces, puts design at the centre of industries as mode to differentiate products and satisfy users' needs and desires. On the other hand, while our body-mind goes through digital portals for …

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Marketing & privacy in hyperconnection

Luciano Petullà · November 15, 2014

The feeble belly of internet Lately, digital activist, American scholar and journalist Ethan Zuckerman complained about his past as supporter of what he defines the “Internet' s original sin”, namely exploitation of advertising as business model to start and manage online services. Although he had many fellows, the present director of MIT Center for Civic Media has a point to blame himself. In 1995 Zuckerman worked and implemented the so hated ad pop-ups, those web pages full of advertising messages that, during our browsing, suddenly occupy all our vision …

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