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The internet is enabling massive changes in the relationships amongst fans, artists, and industries. On this site, Nancy Baym keeps an eye on trends and provides a space to discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what to make of it all. Sometimes she writes about other social internet issues too.
On Language - How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection - NYTimes.com
In a few years’ time, the use of fail as an interjection caught on to such an extent that particularly egregious objects of ridicule required an even stronger barb: major fail, überfail, massive fail or, most popular of all, epic fail.
Joho the Blog » Transparency is the new objectivity
In fact, transparency subsumes objectivity. Anyone who claims objectivity should be willing to back that assertion up by letting us look at sources, disagreements, and the personal assumptions and values supposedly bracketed out of the report.
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Transparency prospers in a linked medium, for you can literally see the connections between the final draft’s claims and the ideas that informed it. Paper, on the other hand, sucks at links. You can look up the footnote, but that’s an expensive, time-consuming activity more likely to result in failure than success.
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In the Age of Links, we still use credentials and rely on authorities. Those are indispensible ways of scaling knowledge, that is, letting us know more than any one of us could authenticate on our own. But, increasingly, credentials and authority work best for vouchsafing commoditized knowledge, the stuff that’s settled and not worth arguing about. At the edges of knowledge — in the analysis and contextualization that journalists nowadays tell us is their real value — we want, need, can have, and expect transparency. Transparency puts within the report itself a way for us to see what assumptions and values may have shaped it, and lets us see the arguments that the report resolved one way and not another. Transparency — the embedded ability to see through the published draft — often gives us more reason to believe a report than the claim of objectivity did.
digital digs: creativity, composition, and the internet socialist/socialist internet
For Lessig the hybrid economy works as long as the user feels she is getting something back, as long as the exchange feels fair to her. But the socialist critique is that that feeling is wrong and needs to be corrected.
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What is more interesting to me is the creative potential, which I think everyone sees in the network, regardless of political stripe. Even if one is an Andrew Keen type, I'd think you could at least see possibilities for networked creativity. And I think I agree with Lessig that one needs to think about these possibilities in the context of a hybrid economy.
In part that's why I think higher education is a great place to explore these possibilities. Money is spent to build and sustain the community, but the activities within the community are not solely money-driven. The university doesn't function if the faculty only think about what they are getting paid to do anymore than it works when the students only think about their education in terms of its market economy value. And, btw, I don't think that makes us suckers. We're suckers when we demand that every aspect of our work be valued in market economic terms, b/c that creates a community in which no one wants to live.
If you have a community with several thousand students and several hundred faculty who are contributing to a networked environment, then all you have to do is free them up to share with one another. Many campuses already have this; they just keep everyone locked away from everyone else in their own Bb classroom. Set the network free and I'm guessing that we can find ways to use it: to share and collaborate... Especially if we start teaching students to think critically, rhetorically, and productively about networks. Here we will share music, audio, video, text, image, software, information. We will strive to do so in ethical ways, which in part will mean figuring out what the ethics ought to be. Does that sound like socialism? Out of this network, we will produce copyrighted works and acquire networked literacies that will be desired in the corporate world. Does that sound like the market economy?
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As I argued to Lessig and others, the free economy is not viable as a replacement system without star trek replicator type technology, simply because the free economy has nothing to say about managing any of the things that we need economies to do. It doesn't manage physical good or location scarcity or allocation, it doesn't incent people to do undesirable or dangerous things. It therefore cannot replace those things fully without solving those issues. That leaves us with a hybrid, where the internet free economy wins until it hits the physical world where it loses traction.
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Salon.com Books | How to go viral
Bill Wasik is an Internet instigator... Wasik is best known as the creator of flash mobs... he's analyzed how and why some stories became cultural phenomenons and others languish in the nursing home of online oblivion.
Now, in his new book "And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture", Wasik sets out to explain what he's learned from all his Web mischievousness and also what our increasing addiction to the Internet indicates about us as a society. We now have more information at our fingertips than ever before, but Wasik suggests we find it hard to focus on issues that really matter because we're so consumed with myopic, ephemeral things.
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Absolutely. One of things that I find so depressing about the climate change conversation is the fact that we actually have succeeded in implanting climate change in a lot of people's minds as an important long-term challenge. But more often than not, the way that that happens in public discourse is seizing on these tiny, little, grabby ideas that are really, really short-term. So, Al Gore has a movie. That was the seminal moment in coming to an understanding about climate change in this country, where we could turn it into a little entertainment business piece. And I think your point about the economic crisis is right on too. We sat there and talked about the AIG bonuses for four days. It was very telling that we can only know the big problem these days by way of some tiny little piece of outrage or delight, through these little nanostories.
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I would say that for 90 percent of culture makers coming up today, your break is going to be online. And the way that you're going to know you had your break is going to be numbers. It isn't going to be a single person, like an established poet, or an established musician coming up to you after a show or responding to a piece of writing you sent them and saying, I really believe you can do it. Instead, it's like this giant hive mind will pluck out something that you've done and say, this we love, this we bestow the pleasure of 2 million hits on. From there on out, you're going to use those cues you get from this giant machine to tell you what to keep doing and to tell you what to stop doing. And that to me is potentially scary in all sorts of ways. The hive mind selects for a certain kind of thing, it selects for culture that is instantly digestible, it selects for culture that is sensational in a certain sort of way.
Do you suffer from Internet fatigue? - CNN.com
Well, you're not alone, according to a recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a nonprofit research group in Washington.
The report, written by John Horrigan, the project's associate director of research, says 7 percent of Americans use the Internet as their primary means of social communication and also feel conflicted about that fact. These online social network users, which Horrigan calls "ambivalent networkers," are so connected they feel like they can't quit.
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The world is distracting, and particularly when you’re open to distraction. But then, it always has been.
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