Tag Archives: Tiziana Terranova

Free labor? An attempt to determine the value of user generated content – for the user

Joep Hegger | 04 October 2011, 11:18 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Writings on the value of user generated content tend to stress the (market) value users produce for companies such as Facebook by adding content, labeling these activities as “free labor”. Assuming that there must also be something in it for the users generating the content, this text proposes ways to assess the amount of monetary and social value users gain from engaging in these activities.

Free and Open: Unfolding the politics

Levien Rocha | 14 March 2011, 11:41 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Lets talk about the supposedly free and open Web again, not ‘again’ in the sense that it has been discussed too much or too abundantly but in the sense that maybe new and other frameworks have to be introduced or at least need to be considered. While I am not trying to speak on anybody’s behalf, certainly when following Latour’…

Manuel Castells: Who has the networking power?

Radmila Radojevic | 16 October 2009, 1:02 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

I have placed Web 2.0 and social networking platforms as ‘media objects’ within a framework of Manuel Castells in the context of the network society. What interests me in particular is the tension Castells described, between mass communication and self mass-communication – or between corporate / mainstream power and emerging counter-power / creative audience on the Web.

The two…

What can wii do for us?

Margarida Fonseca | 12 October 2009, 11:46 am | tags: ,

“(…) the informational dimension of communication is not just about the successful delivery of a coded signal but also about contact and tactility, about architecture and design implying a dynamic modulation of material and social energies. Information works with forms of distracted perception by modulating the organization of a physical environment.”

In this excerpt Tiziana Terranova is making a…