Signing out.
Ken Goldberg is now wrapping up before we go and eat!
Great day of musings, theories, studies, ideas for the future, reports on designs etc. etc. etc.
TONIGHT: 7:30-9:00 pm: UC Regents’ Lecture by Jimmy Wales (in 105 Stanley)
Education and online participation
David Malinowski and Viola Lasmana
Writing in the classroom can be disengaged from the wider public, how can we relate it to social engagement? Lasmana is thinking about students as subjects who need to engage in multiple discourses that allow them to situate themselves across dialogues in their communities and with the general public at large. Students need to renegotiate their role in the public sphere.
From focus on student Malinowski looks at a focus on the institution, they pose the question: how much does an institution restrict the student’s ability to represent him or herself online.
Participation as performance as people represent versions of themselves. What is representation and how is it modulated to representations of power?
Is it possible that there is also a still price in using media in institutional settings because of a much older power of hierarchies that presents itself through us?
Onto the next panel:
Ieva Jusionyte just presented on media and journalism. It seems interesting to consider the difference between “new” and “old,” or “big” and “small” media journalism networks as they relate to organizations like those that Kris Fallon brought up earlier today. Here are some brief notes on Jusionyte’s point:
How do intersubjective and intercommunicational technologies work with more traditional media technologies. How do the “new” and “old” map onto each other. Jusionyte look sat journalists of La Voz de Cataratas. How are local journalists using media to change the focus. Now these journalists are using a variety of new media forms to reach wider audiences cheaper and faster. The hope is to convince the audience of the objectivity and transparency. The camera lens of live broadcast, for example, is likely to distort the message. Although the map of new media onto existing mass media may help large news networks, it doesn’t necessarily help the small news organizations.
ROUNDTABLE: The State of the Forum
Thus far we have heard a lot about what the future of online forums could be from various design, governmental and social perspectives. Interesting comments have suggested that despite an inability to necessarily “predict” what will happen in the future, we should indeed look forward rather than worry about the present. How will we respect privacy while making online communities more transparent? Other questions about access were particularly interesting. More on this later as we are about to start the next panel!
Viral aspects of the forum
This month the email list -empyre- continues a conversation on viral networks with Patricia Zimmerman, professor of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College, and Program Director at WITNESS. I have so enjoyed Patty and Sam’s thoughts on viral media as it relates to ethical, political and social issues and look forward to to any resonances between this discussion on -empyre- and today’s forum. I will be thinking particularly about Patty and Sam’s points that:
**In the current environment of the user-generated, imagined virality, and circulatory vortex of Web 2.0 media, the capacity to produce and share media, testimony, and visual evidence is more widely dispersed.
**Amateurism has been redefined and reconfigured not as an adjunct to other forms of media but as an infiltration of other forms of media. Media practice, therefore, is no longer solely and exclusively about visibility: circulation and aggregation have acquired equal if not greater importance.
Future of the Forum
Tomorrow I will be attending and blogging about Berkeley’s Future of the Forum symposium!Keep an eye out for updates throughout the day.
On the bill among others:
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Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia |
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Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist |
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Mitchell Kapor, Co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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Howard Rheingold, Critic and writer |
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Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter |
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Judith Donath, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center |
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Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder and CEO of SocialMedia Networks |
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Reid Hoffman, Founder of Linkedin.com |
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Lars Rasmussen, co-developer of Google Wave |
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Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, author of What Computers Still Can’t Do |
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Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development at Institute for the Future |
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Kristen Whissel, Professor of Film Studies, author of Picturing American Modernity |
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Laura Sydell, Arts & Technology Correspondent for the NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition |
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Marc Davis, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Invention Arts |
