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Commons-based peer produsage? Rethinking online production.

The Internet, and the emergence of Web 2.0 in particular, have been celebrated for their liberatory potential, setting free the individual consumers once bounded by industrial inertia. We only need to take a quick look at the Arctic Monkey’s...
By Lennard Torbijn on 10/31/10 Comments Off on Commons-based peer produsage? Rethinking online production.

Reducing the ministries’ excessive use of paper

In the early nineteen-eighties, computers became widely adopted by the Dutch ministries. Then, for a decade or so, the computer mainly acted as a replacement of the typewriter. The computer was primarily used for word processing and doing calculations....
By Lennard Torbijn on 10/20/10 Comments Off on Reducing the ministries’ excessive use of paper
Twitter: immediacy and collective intelligence

Twitter: immediacy and collective intelligence

When working on a Wikipedia entry just last week, I was confronted once again with the helplessness one might experience when the computer does not work properly or when the internet connection is down. Upon typing in the Wikipedia...
By Lennard Torbijn on 10/10/10 Comments Off on Twitter: immediacy and collective intelligence

Contributing to Wikipedia: a painstaking task on an too open platform

Ever since Wikipedia has been embraced by millions, the online and collaboratively created encyclopedia has been heralded as the manifestation of Web 2.0’s possibilities. Often, Wikipedia has been ascribed characteristics that belong to online media that are approachable to...
By Lennard Torbijn on 10/02/10 Comments Off on Contributing to Wikipedia: a painstaking task on an too open platform

The panopticon is just a prison, guys: On a new approach to understanding new media

Numerous academic books and articles that have claimed to address the workings of new media tend to merely present an online phenomenon’s lineage or draw an analogy between older (media) theory and newer media (theory). Let us, for instance,...
By Lennard Torbijn on 09/30/10 3

Book review: Andrew Lih – The Wikipedia revolution

How have a bunch of nobodies created the world’s largest encyclopedia? In his book, The Wikipedia revolution (2009), Andrew Lih set himself the goal to answer this question. And he has done so quite successfully. He exstensively maps the...
By Lennard Torbijn on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book review: Andrew Lih – The Wikipedia revolution
The Leonard Cohen Files: bridging the gap between artist and fans

The Leonard Cohen Files: bridging the gap between artist and fans

In 1993, legendary poet, singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen stopped performing and writing. He planned not to perform anymore. In 2008 an official announcement told the world he would return. At Leonard Cohen's personal request, the announcement was not...
By Lennard Torbijn on 09/11/10 1