Tag Archives: participatory culture

Collective writing: How literature is changed by the new medium

Suzanne Schram | 04 October 2009, 3:19 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

There are many variants of social networking sites. Some of them are based on an analog medium. The use of the Internet and the computer has resulted in that the digital medium differs from the analog medium. Examples of this are online encyclopedia such as: wikipedia, Filmaffinity, Flixster, ANobii. The last three examples are websites with reviews of movies and…

Response to sarahnats: What is Causing the Decline in Wikipedia Participation?

Tim | 21 September 2009, 8:49 pm | tags: , , ,

This short article is a response to sarahnats’ article “What is Causing the Decline in Wikipedia Participation”? You can see this short article as a further extension of her argumentation structure and my own experience of adding information to the Wikipedia community.

Sarahnats argues that the rise and power of the editorial management on the site is negative for the active participation on…

Book Review of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

Tim | 17 September 2009, 4:30 pm | tags: , , , ,

Show off your favorite videos to the world.
Take videos of your dogs, cats, and other pets.
Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone.
Securely and privately show your videos to your friends and family
around the world. …and much, much more!
(About Us page of YouTube, 2005)

YouTube. One of the worst names for a cover of a book…

FLIP SIDES OF PARTICIPATORY CULTURE (Book Review)

Simeona Petkova | 13 September 2009, 12:51 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Has celebrating users’ generated content become a dominant ‘grand’ narrative of web entrepreneurs, scholars and online businesses? What is hidden behind the participatory buzz of Web 2.0? In Bastard Culture! User Participation and the extension of cultural industries Mirko Tobias Schaefer demystifies this framework by critically exploring the network of discourses that constitute ‘participatory culture’. Unlike other researches in the field, Schafer…

Book Review on ‘Here Comes Everybody’

Hannah Biemold | 15 September 2008, 1:00 am | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Review of the book ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations’ by Clay Shirky about new tools of communication and organizing of groups on the Internet. What are the social implications and what will change?

Mark Deuze on Media Work

Michael Stevenson | 17 May 2008, 5:12 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Mark Deuze, professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and assistant professor at Indiana University, was the latest speaker in the ongoing New Media Research Lecture Series here at the University of Amsterdam, and spent the afternoon discussing his latest book, Media Work.

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Roman Tol | 13 May 2008, 2:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures
Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog

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On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) organized Politics: Web 2.0: an international conference. The conference was large and diverse, with six distinguished keynotes, 120 papers organized into 41 panels,…

Video Vortex: Participatory Culture

Twan Eikelenboom | 20 January 2008, 11:55 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,
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Do you think Participatory Culture is all about friendly cooperation? Fans flocking to Star Wars conventions or squad based play in the latest MMORPG? The Participatory Culture session at the international Video Vortex conference in Amsterdam, proved that practices such as “cutthroat capitalism” also belong in this category. And how can,…

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Jasper Moes | 19 January 2008, 12:46 am | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Introduction

Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th floor of the ex- Dutch postal service building, all waiting for the…

Deleuze vs. YouTube: Adrian Miles @ Video Vortex

Michael Stevenson | 05 October 2007, 6:15 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,
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Adrian Miles at Video VortexThe subtitle of this conference is Responses to YouTube, and at least one alternative to the world’s largest supplier of piano-playing-cat videos comes in the form of ’soft video’, via Australian media scholar Adrian Miles.

Some of the questions he asks: Where does an online video end – at what point is…