Engagement in a participatory culture
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Marketing, Media, Networks, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Howard Rheingold on Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins has posted on his blog about the paper he and his colleagues have written for the MacArthur Foundation, about participatory culture and media literacy. I have followed Jenkins' lead in my attempts ...
Digital footprints and social translucence
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Data, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Research, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Media, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Social Marketing Intelligence, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Via Techsoup a warm up overview on a Nokia whitepaper due to be published at the end of the year on mobile gaming. Here is something I pulled which I thought to be interesting. Three interesting aspects about current ...
Collective intelligence in a networked society
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »In a networked society, people are increasingly forming knowledge communities to pool information and work together to solve problems they could not confront individually. We call that collective intelligence Henry Jenkins speaking at the Serious Games Summit
The Network is Female
Sunday, October 29th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_3030" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Venus by Botticelli"][/caption] Leon Benjamin, left a note on a post I made European Commission to create open source collaboration portal Curious I went and had a look at his blog. He has made a great ...
The future of the networked mobile Internet
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Search Econmics, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | 13 Comments »In a few years Social Networking on mobile will be bigger than such traditional media industries as Hollywood or music. Get your money into it now, be part of the winners in this. This is not a hyped industry ...
European Commission to create open source collaboration portal
Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted in Darwin, Data, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, News, Participation, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »Nothing like a paradox Information Age reports that the European Commission has engaged with Unisys Belgium to create a portal where public sector organisations can store and share open source development code. As the European Commission is ...
Convergence is a cultural phenomonen not a technological one
Monday, October 16th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Film, Gaming, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Marketing, Media, Networks, Participation, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The book's core premises could be identified as the following: 1. Convergence is a cultural rather than a technological process. We now live in a world where every story, image, sound, idea, brand, and relationship will play itself out across all ...
Life is Fashion
Saturday, October 7th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Media, Music, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Professional Amateurs on Current TV But there is another way of looking at Current TV or the term Professional Amateur. In the Craftsman, Richard Sennett argues that “nearly anyone can become a good craftsman” and that “learning to work well enables people ...
Pop Idol: commerce, culture, community, connectivity
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Research, Generation C, Identity, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | Comments Offsmlxl has produced a whitepaper on the phenomenon of Pop Idol, if you would like a pdf of the full document you can download it here Its insights and conclusions point to a new way of creating value, experience and inviting ...
Reposessing folk culture for the 21st Century
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Health, Identity, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »Once you storm the Bastille you don't go back to your day job - that is all about the total break down of big media trying to control our culture and cultural production. My muse was on the 50646+ video's on ...
