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 ...
Whose laughing now? Politics, culture and entertainment
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Media, Politics, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »A stimulating and thought provoking speech by Armando Iannucci on culture, media and politics. Comedy to the rescue What is wrong with our politics? And why is it that Have I got news for you probably has a better commentary on our ...
The battle of Lafayette - the battle for the right of access
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Way back in time we reported on Do we want all roads across cyberspace to be private toll roads? Its the story of the city of Philadelphia wanting to install its own high speed internet infrastructure. Listen to Dinanah Neff ...
Mammothism - the FCC and greed
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 Posted in Culture, Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Mobile, Society, Television, Web/Tech | No Comments »Whats the news for? Good question. Well in the US apparently its to drive profits for the big media companies vs. reporting anything worth listening too. In Studies Note Media Consolidation As Debate On The Issue Intensifies (Thursday, October 19) ...
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 ...
The bankruptcy of the mass consumer society
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Culture, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Marketing, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Society, Trends | 2 Comments »I my humble opinion is, that we have arrived at the end point of mass consumption, mass media, mass everything. I think this is the beginning of a very long trend, but I think that traditional notions of consumerism ...
