A documentary film by tinro|media works
Welcome to Cyber Sapiens - a documentary film about social networking in the digital age. Social behavior is as primal as human kind, and social media is as ancient as the first cave paintings dating back some 32,000 years. Today’s blogs, vlogs, podcasts, SMSs and micro-blogs are the contemporary, technologically hyper-ed, digitally induced version of those first communicative accounts from the dawn of civilization. The film explores themes of human connectivity and social networking in the Internet age and looks at how recent social media phenomena and social networking trends have been reshaping our culture, life and language. Production Trailer, work-in-progress by tinro|media works. Additional excerpts can be viewed on the film's profile site on MySpace and on YouTube.
Archive of articles classified as' "Net Thinkers"
Back homeThe Seesmic video conversation, discussed by LeWeb ‘08 participants and Seesmic users - Phil Jeudy of San Fancisco-based Altaide Valley, and artist Philippe Lejeune:
I also asked another French expat, Seesmic investor Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC about his take on video conversations:
Selected in 2007 by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women, Christine Lagarde Minister of Finance of France, introduced the winners of the Startup Competition at LeWeb 08, with Loic Le Meur and Robert Scoble: Viewdle (Ukraine), Webnode (Czech Republic) and Zoover (Netherlands):
Nikesh Arora, SVP, Google and President, EMEA Operations, shares Google’s vision about crossing language barriers with innovative translation technologies (from a LeWeb interview with Loic Le Meur):
In an interview with me, following a panel discussion titled Platform Love: Getting Along, David Glazer, Google’s Director of Engineering, referred to the expansion of social networking platforms:
He also discussed privacy standards and how they changed over time:
Excerpts from: The Gillmor Gang at LeWeb 08, moderated by Steve Gillmor with guests: Michael Arrington, Loic Le Meur, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, Doc Searls, Gabe Rivera, Hugh McLeod and Loren Feldman, discuss the cultural differences between Internet entrepreneurs in USA and Europe.
Creative Commons Chairman Joi Ito on copyright issues and the emergence of Creative Commons standards regarding content sharing and remixing on the web:
TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington on TechCrunch and tech journalism:
This year’s theme is Love. Rutgers’ researcher and member of its member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Helen Fisher, spoke about Why We Love, and later in an interview said that the human brain has not changed and that the Internet has not changed our primary human emotional capabilities of falling in love in the digital age.
John Palfrey, co-author of Born Digital on the Digital Natives generation:
David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous, on Net lingo:
Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of The Internet on the future of social media:
Production started in early-April 2008, with filming at the COMvention conference, at one of Jeff Pulver’s worldwide Social Media Breakfasts and at a GarageGeeks‘ party - all held in Tel Aviv, Israel. Additional filming followed later that month at PodCampNYC and then in May at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for the Internet & Society 10th anniversary event.
Welcome to Cyber Sapiens - a documentary film about social media in the digital age.