Particpation Literacy Screenshot
My Licentiate thesis Participation Literacy I: Constructing the Web 2.0 Concept has been available in web 2.0 format since jun 2006, but now I have to bury it for technological reasons. The system was made in Wordpress 2.02, and I don’t have the time or will to keep it up to date. As you can see in the sceenshot there was a problem with the database tables – probably due to the host upgrading mysql.
So far this is the only academic thesis published in web 2.0, participative, format – to my knowlege. 2 and a half years have past and I am still puzzeled by the fact that academics generally are so afraid of collaborating at a public, open level.
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I’m starting to feel more and more pessimistic about the possibility for the comment function on blogs and similar web pages. I just read a blog post about something simple about PayPal. There were about 15 comments and everyone shouted at each other, either in favor of PayPal or against them. I think this is [...]
I’m starting to feel more and more pessimistic about the possibility for the comment function on blogs and similar web pages. I just read a blog post about something simple about PayPal. There were about 15 comments and everyone shouted at each other, either in favor of PayPal or against them. I think this is getting more and more common. It’s not so problematic in the current context, but If comments took off big time in serious, democratic situations… I’m not sure that’s possible. In my Licenciate thesis, I wrote about this possibility in a very optimistic sense, calling it “participation literacy”.
If I should mention a postitive side of this, it is the fact that this animosity often occur in simple settings, as wether Mac or Windows is the best operative system. Once or twice I’ve let my own tounge slip an irony or two when it gets too silly:) But the point is, when the context is more serious, the conversation also seem to get more serious. So, I guess there is some hope…