the debate over web 2.0

 TACTICAL MEDIA ART -- CASE STUDY


INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY
GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB - L.A.Z.E.R. TAG

PITTSBURGH'S DEEP LOCAL


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Andrew Keen: "Web 2.0 is Fucked!"
Keen is caught after a few too many cocktails at a conference on networked technologies

Debate: The Internet and Democracy

Miller Center of Public Affairs

It Is Easy to Ignore Facts Online
Authority Can Exist on the Internet
No Expertise on Wikipedia or Expertise No Curators
Free Information has greater transparancy

IN CONTRAST TO Rushkoff's new book:

Program or be Programmed

Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff

The Commands are not commandments, meant as orders from God to a population, but rather ways of taking command of any of the biases of digital media. The way to take command of digital media’s asynchronous bias, for example, is not to be “always on.”
Here are the ten from the book.


I. TIME
    Do Not Be Always On
II. PLACE
    Live in Person
III. CHOICE
    You May Always Choose None of the Above
IV. COMPLEXITY
    You Are Never Completely Right
V. SCALE
   One Size Does Not Fit All
VI. IDENTITY
    Be Yourself
VII. SOCIAL
    Do Not Sell Your Friends
VIII. FACT
    Tell the Truth
IX. OPENNESS
    Share, Don’t Steal
X. PURPOSE
    Program or Be Programmed 

1. MAKE SURE YOU ARE CAUGHT UP ON ALL YOUR BLOG POSTINGS
2. THINK ABOUT THE  FORA.TV DEBATE AND CONSIDER WHAT "SIDE" YOU IDENTIFY MOST WITH (KEEN'S OR RUSHKOFF')

RUSHKOFF'S ANSWER TO KEEN

 Discussion of your answers to Questions about Andrew Keen's great seduction:

1. How does Keen's does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links.

2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why?

  IN CONTRAST TO:

Program or be Programmed

Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff

The Commands are not commandments, meant as orders from God to a population, but rather ways of taking command of any of the biases of digital media. The way to take command of digital media’s asynchronous bias, for example, is not to be “always on.”
Here are the ten from the book.


I. TIME
Do Not Be Always On
II. PLACE
Live in Person
III. CHOICE
You May Always Choose None of the Above
IV. COMPLEXITY
You Are Never Completely Right
V. SCALE
One Size Does Not Fit All
VI. IDENTITY
Be Yourself
VII. SOCIAL
Do Not Sell Your Friends
VIII. FACT
Tell the Truth
IX. OPENNESS
Share, Don’t Steal
X. PURPOSE
Program or Be Programmed


 WATCH:

Web 2.0 "How the Web Ate the Economy and Why it’s Great for Everyone."
Web 2.0 by douglas rushkoff 2009

Next time look at andrew keen's solutions..

The great seduction @ google

mention upcoming schedule (after keen)

Finish Watching andrew keen at google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

For Tuesday I would like you to finish reading the Great Seduction by Andrew Keen and answer the following questions, using the reading and keen's commentary from the google talk as reference points:

1. How does Keen's does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links.

2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why?

I thought you maybe interested in this: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Catfish-4848.html

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

keen on colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/91639/august-16-2007/andrew-keen

discussion of commentaries / intro to Andrew Keen

1. I want to discuss some of the things that you Discovered after reading each other's blog postings on digital nation.. I'll Take volunteers or select students to share in class


2. Pass out "The Great Seduction by Andrew Keen"


 3. For Fri th 8th.. I want you to respond to the commentary made on your blog..


4. Have The Great Seduction Read by Tues. the 11th

If we have time we will watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

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discussion / blog comments---

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/238643/july-15-2009/douglas-rushkoff
WATCH IN CLASS
RUCHKOFF LIFE INC

1. we will find partners today to start the "Digital Nation" Discussions..

2. Under my direction we will divide into groups of 2-3
3. By the end of class you need to read your partner's essay,  and post their thesis on your blog.. along with your "response thesis"

THIS IS NOT ( http://collegeacb.com/ ) ;)

followed by a in-class discussion..

FOR TUES

RESPOND ( in the comments section of your partner's blog)
should be 1-3 pages
I also want you to read 3 other students postings and make a short response in their comments section..

MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE YOUR FIRST, LAST NAME, AND A FULL LINK TO YOUR POSTING IN THE COMMENTS

Finish Digital Nation

Lets finish Digital_Nation..

Then we will have a discussion about the film, followed by any questions or topics raised from your assignment (reposted below)



Social Media and The Wisdom of the Crowd Postings (DUE THUR)

I would like to pose the Following topics taken from online talks from boingboing.net about "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. 

TOPICS LIST:

Open Source and Crowdsourcing.
What are the values implicit in both collaborative open source activities and "crowd-sourced" activities on behalf of a corporation or organization? Has the open source movement created new forms, or just copies of old ones? What are the possibilities, here, for new cultural and economic institutions, and how might they be improvements on the status quo? 


The Mob.
What are the, perhaps, unintended effects unleashed by our connectedness? Does anonymity plus connectivity always equal misbehavior and cruelty? How are we to explain some of the collective anger that seems to be unleashed online - and is it a result of the same anger characterizing much of our society's discourse, or is it the cause?

Whither the Individual?
As we join groups and social networks from affinity sites to Facebook, are we extending and expanding identities, or increasingly conforming to the cookie-cutter profiles demanded of these interfaces? Is the loss of "personal space" and "reflection" so many users complain of merely the necessary surrender of "ego" as we learn to participate as members of a more evolved "collective organism" of "hyper-people?"

Folksonomy and the Folks.
Everybody is, indeed, here now - but should everyone be here? Does the rise of the amateur lead to an unnecessary devaluation of the professional? Do collective online activities promote a new form of participatory democracy and the development of new and accurate folksonomies, or rather to they lead people to overestimate the value of their unconsidered posts and opinions? Do representative democracy, academic disciplines and other seemingly elitist artifacts fall by the wayside?

FULL POSTING DUE FRI 1st

choose one of the above topics for a blog posting on the topic equivalent to at least a 3 page paper ..

You can take a positive or negative stance towards your chosen topic, but you need to back up your opinions with examples from valid sources. This means to include links to your sources.

After that I am going to have you respond to each others blogs in the form of commentaries.

Continuing Digital Nation... Topics/assignment about the "wisdom" of the crowd

start at 52:06 on tues


Today we will start watching Digital Nation

Watching Rushkoff and Dretzin's Digital Nation

life on the virtual frontier

I would like to pose the Following topics taken from online talks from boingboing.net about "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. 

TOPICS LIST:

Open Source and Crowdsourcing.
What are the values implicit in both collaborative open source activities and "crowd-sourced" activities on behalf of a corporation or organization? Has the open source movement created new forms, or just copies of old ones? What are the possibilities, here, for new cultural and economic institutions, and how might they be improvements on the status quo? 


The Mob.
What are the, perhaps, unintended effects unleashed by our connectedness? Does anonymity plus connectivity always equal misbehavior and cruelty? How are we to explain some of the collective anger that seems to be unleashed online - and is it a result of the same anger characterizing much of our society's discourse, or is it the cause?

Whither the Individual?
As we join groups and social networks from affinity sites to Facebook, are we extending and expanding identities, or increasingly conforming to the cookie-cutter profiles demanded of these interfaces? Is the loss of "personal space" and "reflection" so many users complain of merely the necessary surrender of "ego" as we learn to participate as members of a more evolved "collective organism" of "hyper-people?"

Folksonomy and the Folks.
Everybody is, indeed, here now - but should everyone be here? Does the rise of the amateur lead to an unnecessary devaluation of the professional? Do collective online activities promote a new form of participatory democracy and the development of new and accurate folksonomies, or rather to they lead people to overestimate the value of their unconsidered posts and opinions? Do representative democracy, academic disciplines and other seemingly elitist artifacts fall by the wayside?

FOR TUESDAY HAVE 1/2 FINISHED TO START DISCUSSION, FULL POSTING DUE FRI the 1st:

choose one of the above topics for a blog posting on the topic equivalent to at least a 3 page paper ..

You can take a positive or negative stance towards your chosen topic, but you need to back up your opinions with examples from valid sources. This means to include links to your sources.

After that I am going to have you respond to each others blogs in the form of commentaries.

I would advise you to start thinking about and researching your chosen topic as we finish the documentary..