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or centuries, the rich and the powerful documented their existence and their status through painted portraits.

Self-portraits can be especially instructive. By showing the artist both as he sees his true self and as he wishes to be seen, self-portraits can at once expose and obscure, clarify and distort.

Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital; they are crafted from pixels rather than paints. On social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook, our modern self-portraits feature background music, carefully manipulated photographs, stream-of-consciousness musings, and lists of our hobbies and friends.

The ladder makes it clear that the majority of people online are what Li and Bernoff call "spectators" (people who consume content rather than create it; it’s a high number, 70 percent) with a minority of "creators" – in essence, the reverse behaviour, representing 24 percent of people online who publish a blog, create and upload video and audio, etc – much of the content that the "spectators" consume

La dynamique des médias sociaux accentue encore le besoin de qualités qui constituent depuis longtemps le socle d’un leadership efficace, telles que la créativité stratégique, une communication authentique, la capacité de faire face aux dynamiques sociales et politiques d’une société et enfin celle de concevoir une organisation à la fois agile et réactive.

comprendre la nature des différentes technologies sociales mais aussi les effets difficilement contrôlables que ces derniers peuvent produire.

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powerful online presence in order to stand out among your competitors.

huge opportunity to increase your company’s visibility and therefore increase your digital reach—your potential client base and your bottom line.

Fourth myth: We know that copyright makes us collectively better off. The evidence points in the opposite direction. Germany had weak copyright laws up until the Copyright Act of 1901. Yet, maybe because of these weak laws, it became a literary and scientific power: (…), only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time – 10 times fewer than in Germany – and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900. (No Copyright Law The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? by Frank Thadeusz)

Fifth myth: Without copyright, authors would not get paid.

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