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Geert Lovink speaking at New School on publishing initiatives and innovative approaches at Institute of Network Cultures.

Geert Lovink, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam from The Politics of Digital Culture on Vimeo.

Do-It-Together: Digital Publishing Experiments at the Institute of Network Cultures

Twitter for education presentation as google doc. Twenty-Two Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom

Kyla sent this reference across for PP. An ABC production Sydney Sidetracks that places archive audiovisual material in relation to map location points in Sydney. A part of the set-up caters for people to refer to the material on their mobiles at the locations.

Sydney Sidetracks presents a selection of documentary recordings about Sydney’s changing street life. We’ve dusted off the archives for you to explore online or take out with you on your mobile next time you visit the city. Use the map page to explore key locations around inner city Sydney. Selected locations feature audio, video and photos about that place – an event in time, a person who once lived there, a building now demolished, a story to be told.

Picked this link up off AM’s blog, 5 Trends That Will Change Media in ’09 and was particualry interested in the concept of curation economy:

1. The Growth of the Curation Economy

As the cost of the creation of content continues to come down, more content creators will come online. This will create a huge influx of unfiltered material, and create a significant demand for filters and editors who can find/sort/select and recommend contextual quality content within verticals. This “Curation” function has the potential to give media enterprises whose current business models are under tremendous pressure a new and important role in the web media world. What makes the Curation Economy so powerful, and so disruptive, is that the core resource required to building a high-quality curated experience is not capital, but knowledge. This will drive an emerging class of content entrepreneurs – people who are able to turn their trusted personal brands into high-quality filtered content destinations. As the number of publishers grows dramatically, content consumers will hunger for new trusted sources. These many creators and consumers on the move will fuel whole new businesses and categories.

Image by David Holmes the missing attendee.

I am in the middle of attending a master class with Geert Lovink at Melbourne University titled ‘Web 2.0 Studies // Critical Internet Theory’. The summary of the workshop:

In relation to the current Internet, there is an obvious need to move beyond cultural studies approaches to fandom, where active consumption is simply recast as participatory culture without any assessment of the economic and technological forces driving usergenerated content. Rather than relying on the Jenkins-style models of convergence and the notion of collective intelligence, this workshop will encourage participants to consider the alternative possibilities and theoretical problems facing a materialist understanding of network culture.

For instance, to what extent can software studies move from engineering issues and technologically-focused specifications to outline a broader analytics of power? What sort of creative concepts are available for understanding the everyday practices of blogging? How can organized networks transform their dependence on free labor to reach greater economic sustainability?

Readings:

Geert Lovink, ‘The Society of the Query and the Googlization of our Lives’, Eurozine, September 2008, originally published in German, in Lettre International 81, Berlin, 2008, translated into Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Danish.

Geert Lovink, ‘Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse,’ Eurozine, January, 2007, originally published in German, in Lettre International 73, Berlin, 2006, translated into French,Swedish, Italian, Danish, Swedish.

Geert Lovink and Anna Munster, ‘Distributed Aesthetics, Or, What a Network is Not’, Fibreculture Journal 7 (2005)

Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, ‘The Dawn of Organised Networks’, Fibreculture Journal 5 (2005).

Matteo Pasquinelli, ‘The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage’ (2008),

From the engage media newsletter: The open video alliance wiki and principles.

I read this article in the age on the weekend ‘Beginning to see the light‘, by Nick Miller which gives some insights into the next phase of the Internet. A phase which is all about increased speed “ultra-broadband”.

“With this light pipe and high-resolution video you have one wall of your living room dissolve and there are your grandparents; another wall dissolves and it’s the aunts and uncles, and you’re in one big room. These are the kind of things that will throw our intuitive sense of the physical world out the window.”

PIcked this up off the aoir list, a discussion about a video on YouTube titled ‘Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us’ that takes a swipe at web 2.0. A critique of the video on the on the Media @ LSE Group weblog in the post ‘Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0′ Quote:

“It suggests that thanks to Web 2.0 technologies (which it neatly explains) “we’ll have to rethink copyright, identity, ethics… ourselves”.

And the discussion on the aoir list.