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Philosophic Discourse

Teaching, Learning–and Studying: The Road Less Traveled.

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Antonio Vantaggiato

A book review on Repubblica.it reminds me of a singular issue in the teaching & learning community: Studying, the road less traveled. In it, studying is compared to a sort of rebel passion. Studying is disappearing, writes Paola Mastrocola, author of the … Continue reading →

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Facebook vs Open & Free Expression and Blogging

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Antonio Vantaggiato

That a defense of Facebook et al come from a blogger–a Cuban blogger– has some effects on me. I’m talking about Yoani Sánchez, the Cuban disruptive blogger who taught blogging while being persecuted by authorities. So I read with some … Continue reading →

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The Freedom of the Press Center and Digital Identity

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Post I have a problem when an organization, a person or a company uses its Facebook page as its main digital identity device. First of all when I write an entity’s URL like this facebook.com/thisIsMe this tells that this is … Continue reading →

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Theology of The Nonexistent God: Finding He Who Is Not

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Fascinating. If finding an existing God already proves difficult to many, imagine a nonexistent one! A whole theology built around a nonexistent god would then seem byzantine at the very least. “The world,” we read in the Gnostic Gospel of … Continue reading →

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The disneyBook

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Silos, Tunnel Vision and the Infantilization of Everything: the disneyBook I have gone through a few weeks of classes, and I am emphasizing with my students the importance of the open Web vis á vis the closed, institutionalized silos-like environments … Continue reading →

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