Week Three Highlights

Week Three: Blogs, Video Blogs

Define:
-controlled vocabulary
-collective intelligence

Four principles of collective intelligence: Openness, peering, sharing, acting globally

Read: Lev Manovich and David Rokeby handouts

Blogging: the social production of community:
Define:
-Performativity
-Henry Jenkin’s four typologies of participatory culture
-Rheingold’s definition of smart mobs
-define community involvement in participatory culture

Blogger Ethics
-define: corporate weblog manifesto

Youtube cultural agreement?
Bridezilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nFDnC8SSWQ

lonelygirl15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MhzPBagaNY&feature=PlayList&p=F1BED25959F378B7&index=0&playnext=1

(see also Mouchette)
http://www.mouchette.org/

Obama Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU


Empowering citizen journalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism

-Define six types of citizen journalism (as set out by J.D. Lasica)
-Terry Flew states there are 3 elements “critical to the rise of citizen journalism and citizen media":
-http://www.nowpublic.com/
-three step process of digital, informational and social inclusion
-Pro citizen journalism: Chris Anderson (“Free”) (What is the gift economy?)
-Criticism: Andrew Kean “Cult of the Amateur:
-Artists’ project: -Pixel grain
http://www.networkedcultures.org/index.php?tdid=144