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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
How are the French suburbs doing?
The French sociologist Michel Wieviorka explains in an interview with Alex Rühle that the rioting in France's suburbs a year ago was "the physical expression of the dramatic failure of our integration policy, which has virtually gone unchanged." However, he notes that the youths have not created their own 'official' version of the events "because they didn't experience them as a group. They communicated over mobile phones, came together for brief moments and then split up again. Added to that, these youths have no culture of remembrance. Their lives are not shaped by discourse, they zap from event to event. In the meantime there's been the Star-Academy and the Football World Cup on TV. They haven't had the time to develop a romantic narrative."
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The future with Web 2.0
Alex Rühle contradicts the prophets of total networking, who see the interactive Web 2.0 as ushering in an era of global grass-roots democracy: "For sure, there's the Flickr picture gallery, the music exchange platforms, Googleearth, and all these programmes that connect consumers with each other and provide them with fantastic platforms for communication and self-promotion. But the Internet community is using terms such as 'honesty', 'trust', and 'authenticity' when it talks about Web 2.0, as if it were some kind of social education miracle. The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, on the other hand, is amazingly candid on the subject: 'The term Web 2.0 was coined at a meeting between publisher O'Reilly and event organiser Media Live International as a term which was geared to the market.' A publisher. An event manager. A marketing term. What has all that got to do with honesty and authenticity, to say nothing of a kind of global digital spirit in which the knowledge of all users is gathered to provide total knowledge?"
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