agenda for next week and interesting journal issue on blogs
Panagiota Alevizou
This week I will present a brief overview of Pierre Levy's theories on
collective intelligence.
One of the most influential theorists of Cyberculture, Pierre Lévy
offers a metaphorical conceptualization and posthumanistist theorizing
of cyberspace to argue for a new relationship between technology and
knowledge, a relationship that allows the cultivation of a mutually
developed and enhanced knowledge space through social interaction and
associatiative cognitive exchanges. Lévy’s ‘information utopia’ can be
inspiring for grasping the cultural ethic of open source movements and
social software we have been discussing in the seminars. But as much
as such approaches enlighten some elements of the cultural interfaces
of the Web, they also obscure, I argue, the clear relationship between
the Web, digital knowledge forms and the rest of the industrial
society. I will try to combine some of our reflections on the
definition and classification of social software (as these are
illustrated in the collaborative table we produced) with some of my
research findings from online encyclopaedias (including wikipedia).
I will post this on the wikie and the blog later on today. Below there
is a recent issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
that contains interesting articles on blogs.
Giota
Subject: Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies - New Issue
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General <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
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Editorial p. 143
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Introduction p. 145
Melissa Gregg, Jean Burgess
Feeling <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=N8578171U1267U2G>
Ordinary: Blogging1 as Conversational Scholarship p. 147
Melissa Gregg
A <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=L86T5NN47J0TWK52>
Welcome
for Blogs p. 161
Kris R. Cohen
Authentic <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=V3TQP23253NT67J0>
Self, Paranoid Critique and Getting a Good Night's Rest p. 175
Will Tregoning
Recycling <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=XJT2742T70H75T50>
Home Movies p. 189
Jane Simon
Hearing <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=L673M410W1323KT0>
Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital
Storytelling p. 201
Jean Burgess
Counter-heroics
<http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=L050741525G21H6X>
Afterword
p. 215
Graeme Turner
Comment <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=RK91465771327815>
p. 219
Nick Couldry
Rebels <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=LP59Q5L85046W273> for
the System? Virus Writers, General Intellect, Cyberpunk and Criminal
Capitalism p. 225
Mathieu O'Neil
Nation <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=UW6130711114562T>
Building and Australian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s p.
243
Jon Stratton
Bifurcation
<http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=R7944225L2678N30> or
Entanglement? Settler Identity and Biculturalism in Aotearoa New
Zealand
p. 253
Avril Bell
Diasporic <http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?
id=U472123L3J6PM267>
Subjectivity in Contemporary Australian Documentary: Travel, History
and the
Televisual Representation of Trauma p. 269
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