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OpenKollab: inherent conflicts arising within generative collaboration spaces
Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under: Collaboration, community, Internet, Open Collaboration | Tags: Collaboration, Communications, community, Internet, Online Community, Open Collaboration, social change |
SUBMITTED TO THE OPENKOLLAB LISTSERV: http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab/ Hey Folks, I just drafted this as a part of a conference submission that I made and I would welcome your thoughts. Specifically, we have all come to realize that, even though we all share a passion for open collaboration and its potential, actually identifying what to collaborate on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )On Utilizing Technology To Connect People On Different Continents
Posted on December 8, 2008. Filed under: community, Music, Real Time, social change | Tags: Add new tag, changing the world, community, global change, group consciousness, Internet, modern world, Music, Online Community, Real Time, real time interaction, social change, Socially Beneficial, technology and social change |
As many of you know, I am greatly interested in the way that technology can be utilized to connect people across across the world – to make the constraints imposed by geography less relevant. Since I am a musician, one particular angle on this that I am pursuing is using music at the centrepiece of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Technology and Massive Dialogue
Posted on December 5, 2008. Filed under: Communications, community, mobilization, Real Time, social change, Space | Tags: changing the world, communication, Communications, community, dialogue, global change, global community, group consciousness, group interaction, mobilization, Online Community, open systems, Real Time, real time interaction, social change, Socially Beneficial, technology and social change |
There has been much discussion on this blog about the changing nature of space; the way that we can extend the environments that we are in in order to bridge geographic boundaries. Another theme that is related, and that I will expand further on in due course, is the idea that technology allows you to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )On Power, the Representation of Power and Visibility
Posted on September 20, 2008. Filed under: community, Power | Tags: community, Internet, media, Modernity, Online Community, Power, representation, social forms |
It is a fact of existing or established power structures that the entity that is representative of power is, at the same time, represented as that which is powerful. For example, congress is both representative of power and represents power. The distinction is subtle but important. To be representative of power is to be a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Concept of Facebook
Posted on August 27, 2008. Filed under: community, Internet, Modernity, Real Time, social networking, Space, technology | Tags: Communications, community, facebook, global change, Internet, presence, proximity, real time interaction, social change, social networking, Space, technology |
In yesterday’s post I made reference to an article that I wrote entitled The Concept of Facebook. I thought I might as well provide a link to the article for those that are interested: The Concept of Facebook The following is an exerpt from the article to give you an idea of what it is [...]
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