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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: "Vernacular Creativity... - 0 views

www.henryjenkins.org/...cular_creativity_an_inter.html creativity vernacularcreativity
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 15 Oct 07 - Cached
  • vernacular creativity
  • everyday creative practices
  • Vernacular creativity is ordinary.
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  • The point is, culture doesn¹t have to be sublime or spectacular to be useful or significant or interesting to someone, somewhere. But what I find most interesting about vernacular creativity in the context of the new media generally and the Internet particularly is the potential to scale that immediate social context add up to social connectivity, and conversation, to individualistic self-expression.
  • focus on participation and creativity, rather than resistance
  • shifts the questions that we need to ask about the cultural politics of media slightly sideways from being only about power, exploitation and resistance to questions of voice, cultural inclusion, and so on and those questions seem to me to offer more hope for pragmatic interventions.
  • But I think some of the most interesting forms of civic engagement occur where the everyday and popular collide with the political
    • Benjamin Jörissen
      Benjamin Jörissen on 15 Oct 07
       
      participation auf der Ebene der Mikropolitik
  • cultural citizenship
  • that cultural citizenship was not only constituted online, but through the articulation of the online social network with everyday, local experience.
  • The Uses of YouTube, which combines large-scale content analysis with fine-grained qualitative methods
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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: "Vernacular Creativity... - 0 views

www.henryjenkins.org/...lar_creativity_an_inter_1.html creativity eparticipation vernacular
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 15 Oct 07 - Cached
  • You refer to this as the participation gap instead of the digital divide
  • I tried to use vernacular creativity as much as possible because it focuses on the practices of users in relation to their own lives;
  • some of the most interesting discussions of new labour theory in relation to network culture have been happening on the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list lately (https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-August/002698.html)
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  • I found that the spaces that were most rich in examples of vernacular creativity were at the same time constrained in certain ways
  • the most active, intensive forms of participation seem to be taken up mainly by already-literate bloggers, gamers, and internet junkies
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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online - 0 views

www.wired.com/...nep_newsocialism SocialWeb sharing colaboration
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 09 Oct 10 - Cached
  • These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists,"
  • The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.
  • Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide.
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  • This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
  • It is decentralization extreme.
  • Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.
  • I use socialism because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely for their power on social interactions.
  • When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it's not unreasonable to call that socialism.
  • aging hippy John Barlow
  • Rather, it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation.
  • Clay Shirky
  • Groups of people start off simply sharing and then progress to cooperation, collaboration, and finally collectivism.
  • I. SHARING
  • personal photos
  • status updates
  • Sharing is the mildest form of socialism
  • half-thoughts
  • 6 billion videos
  • millions of fan-created stories
  • reviews
  • locations
  • bookmarks
  • map locations
  • II. COOPERATION
  • emerge at the group level
  • Creative Commons
  • Thousands of aggregator sites
  • III. COLLABORATION
  • IV. COLLECTIVISM
  • "Inside every working anarchy, there's an old-boy network."
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