networking boom is increasingly moving

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This is what Marco Dinoi, the late author of Lo sguardo e l'evento (Le Lettere, Florence 2008), does, questioning the construction of testimony through the visions produced by cinema and the media, investigating the role of the image, which today imposes itself between the gaze of the spectator and the memory of the facts. The book will be presented by Giorgio De Vincenti (University of Roma Tre); speakers will be Roberto Silvestri ( Il Manifesto ) and Stefano Jacoviello (LevelFive Association-Marco Dinoi Study Center). The presentation will be preceded by the screening of some sequences from the film 11'09″01 – September 11, Canada 2002.

The social to mobile phones Armando Giorgi Apple, Microsoft, Google: all the big germany telegram data names in hi-tech are looking at this market with great interest. Nokia and Tim are launching their own mobile social networks. In the wake of the success of social networks like Facebook or MySpace , several companies are launching platforms for sharing images, music, contacts, thoughts, appointments and everything that can be digitized and packaged to end up on a cell phone. So many new social networking applications for cell phones, also because this market, despite the current financial and economic crisis, is still promising.

According to Nielsen Mobile, in fact, in Europe 30% of mobile phone users who belong to at least one social network use their cell phones to access it anywhere. The number of social networkers on cell phones will go from 50 million in 2006 to 174 million in 2011, according to a study by Abi Research. And in 2013 the market will reach the remarkable figure of 4.6 billion dollars, with investments destined for consumer technologies that will probably surpass those of companies (source: Forrester Research). Microsoft has understood this and is calibrating its mobile strategy on entertainment and in particular on social networking.