Readings for Wednesday

You'll find the short readings for this Wednesday on our class web site. Make sure you read both pages, the first on some of the ideas of Trebor Scholz and the second on the ideas of Adam Arvidsson. You will find a link at the bottom on the second page to a relatively short statement of Michel Bauwen's ideas, called The Dornbin Manifesto. Enjoy....

Key Concepts:

immaterial labor
the ethical economy
prosumption
crisis of value
to monetize
brands (Arvidsson's definition)

Concepts for the Danah Boyd reading

You should be comfortable with, and be able to define, the following concepts for class on Wednesday:

Cultural resonance Unmediated public Networked publics Persistence (in the sense used here, common in writing about digital information) Searchability Replicability

Invisible audiences Impression management Mechanisms of deception Imagined audience Culture of fear Participation divide

Concepts: What is Web 2.0?

You should be able to define, in your own words, and apply, the following concepts from our reading for Wednesday:

Web 2.0 Collective intelligence (as defined by O'Reilly) User-engagement Folksonomy Peer production

RSS Permalink Hypertext Infoware Information annotation Innovation in assembly

Welcome

A rather belated welcome to NCLC 249 but very sincere, all the same. I've posted below the key concepts you should be able to define and attempt to apply from our first week's readings. It's OK if you're not quite sure of some of the concepts, but make sure you keep a note of them, and we can talk about them in more detail when next we meet.

From the Mark Warschauer reading:
Social capital, including:

• Bonding social capital
• Bridging social capital
• Norm-related social capital
• Macro-level social capital
  

Out-of-group networking
Community Informatics
Social Alliances
Synergy
Citizen Feedback

From the Marie-Laure Ryan reading (sent to those who attended last week's class as a .pdf entitled Levy.pdf):

The two definitions of virtual contrasted in the Marie Laure Ryan extract:

• The virtual-as-fake
• The virtual-as-potential
  

Fictionality
Authenticity
Actualization
Levy’s concept of creativity
Virtualization, including two examples:

• Virtualization of the economy
• Virtualization of the body
  

Let me know if you have any questions, and make notes of anything that seems unclear for our next meeting.