For a couple of weeks I have been working with Roger Baig from guifi.net in a forthcoming book chapter about Open Networks and Human Rights. It will be entitled as “El dret a un canal de comunicació simètric” – “the right to a simetric comunication channel”(translated for non-catalan speakers).

/Post Script 28-04-2009/ actually, the final version (which is a spanish translation of the original) is to be found as;

Baig, R. & Bona, Y.(2009). El derecho a un canal de comunicación simétrico de acceso y alcance universales. In Vinyamata, E. (Coord.) Derechos Humanos, Nuevas Realidades. Ediciones del Campus per la Pau, EdiUOC: Barcelona. pp.159-172. ISBN: 978-84-9788-805-9.

/End of PS/

There is always a strange period of mutual adjustment to the style and arguments of others. This has been a great opportunity to balance some arguments form social sciences and those coming from computer sciences. It is not always that easy to find common notions or agreements upon what has to be stated, what has to be left aside. Indeed, it is not easy even alone

But It is worth it for it opens some space of reflexion and affects the way we went over writings without an apparent problematisation of terms, concepts, figures we are so used to write down in our respective fields. Somehow, as Michel Serres notes, people will be grateful if you respect their own vocabulary and do not supplant their terminology with yours. Even if it is a rather specialised field, in some cases, it is preferable to make some people get a dictionary and find out what a word means rather than neglect a whole set of common vocabulary coming from a specific, and sometimes, ignored field. Serres, in so saying – and as far as I understand, is arguing for a sort of “respect” for those who we write about manifested, literally, in our writing. Which is a good point.