The rise of the conversation society

You might say we have always been a conversation society, and with that comes in English anyway, the term ‘polite society’ or indeed the ‘chattering classes.’ However there is something more supercharged about the conversation society today.

We have become; connected, interconnected and superconnected, where our ability to connect, share, collaborate, co-create and co-innovate brings a new paradigm to the conversation society.

And that is what Me the Media is all about

Over at Freedom Lab, the guys have done something very interesting, to tell the story of the book in 10 minutes only using YouTube material so go and have a looksee and buy the book here

Questions raised by the book are

1. If everybody is in control, than who is in charge?
2. If the medium has just become a medium, than where is the message?
3. How do we deal with the fact that mass-media turn into a media-mass?

This then got me musing about communities and identity and also the idea of what Henry Jenkins describes as Spreadable Media.

And as Richard Sennett wrote we want to

recover something of the spirit of the Enlightenment on terms appropriate to our time. We want the shared ability for work to teach us how to govern ourselves and to connect to other citizens on common ground.

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