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| Mapping Information Society and its Discontents
Les Complices*, Anwandstrasse 9, Zürich Exhibition: 20th April until 07th May 2005 Featuring large-scale prints showing statistics on the global situation of television media and Copyfight! a paticipatory community Television project and TV station See also: http://www.lescomplices.ch | |||
 Press release In «Mapping Information Society and its Discontents» !Mediengruppe Bitnik trace the current state and conditions of the global «information society». In different maps show factors, from the global distribution of communications technologies to press freedom or alphabetisation, which are decisive for the participation in information society. Different statistics, published by UN-Organisations, NGOs and State Organistaions, are taken as a basis for the world maps exhibited. All the statistics used show one organisations point of view towards information society and thus shows that data collection and analysis essentially also means data interpretation. !Mediengruppe Bitnik collects statistics on information society and using a mapping software which it developed for this purpose converts the statistics into world maps. The maps generated through the software differ from established geographical maps: The statistical data is assigned directly to the territorial area of the respective country. Consequently countries which have high values in a particular data set take up more room on the map. Small values let a countries territorial area shrink together until, in extreme examples, it disappears from the face of the earth entirely. «Mapping Information Society and its Discontents» does not provide a definition of «information society». Rather it shows the prevailing power structures in information society and makes the basic conditions and framework apparent in which «information society» takes place. Pictures of the exhibition: 
With many thanks to: * Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth (les complices*) * Andrea Thal (les complices*) * Niklaus Gysi (Plotts) * Heiko (Troubleshooting) |
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Map "Pressfreedom" 
World Press Freedom Ranking, Reporters Without Borders, 2003Reporters Without Borders Map "Television Sets per Household" 
World Telecommunication Indicators, International Telecommunication Union, 2003
ITU Indicators ITU Handbook Map "Television Sets per Household" 
World Telecommunication Indicators, International Telecommunication Union, 2003
ITU Indicators ITU Handbook |
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Zürich -
 2003-2007
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