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Who participates and what are they doing?

Retrieved on April 29, 2008 from http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm.

Ethan Zuckerman: the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes

04-24-08

Two dimensions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y Distributive Justice Equality of Opportunity (Lynch) Equality of Outcome (Lynch) Justice from Freedom of Oppressive Relations (Young) – pulled both together – five faces of oppression Relationship Justice – nature of relationships in a structured society Neo-Fabian and Post-Mod of Neutrality Freedom from Oppression (being oppressed doesn’t rule out the opportunity of …

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Cyberspace and society on H2O

http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/59714

On Bricolage: Assembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Hand by Anne-Marie Boisvert, translated by Timothy Barnard

ideas in the mix : on bricolageView this article in flash requires flash 6 >http://www.horizonzero.caRetrieved from: http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?tlang=0&is=8&file=4On BricolageAssembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Handby Anne-Marie Boisvert, translated by Timothy Barnard It is significant that we speak about a remix “culture”, for it is much more than a mere musical movement. Naturally it includes cultural products …

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Here Comes Everybody

Shirky (2008), “By making it easier for groups to self-assemble and for individuals to contribute to group effort without requiring formal management (and its attendant overhead), these tools have radically altered the old limits on the size, sophistication, and scope of unsupervised effort (the limits that created the institutional dilemma in the first place)” (p. …

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Media interactivity is power

Nakamura (2008), “It is widely accepted notion that media interactivity is power. If this is true, then scholars and institutions wishing to create an equal and fair society have an interest in measuring types and degrees of digital interactivity as it is distributed among different social groups. We must create nuanced terms and concepts for …

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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You …

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Community online — Ethereal Revenge

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How do we reconfigure these in our own anti-oppressive research?