Assessing the Impact of Open Content Knowledge Production in Web 2.0

Slide 1: Assessing the Impact of Open Content Knowledge Production in :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 2: :: Introduction • Celina Raffl, University of Salzburg, Austria • Research and Teaching Assistant at the ICT&S Center: Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society • Theoretical and empirical research on current trends and emerging ICTs and their impact on society [micro, meso, macro] and their subsystems • Cooperation in science and research [Transdisciplinarity] :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center • Cooperation for innovation and development [Open Source] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 3: :: Introduction Like distant islands sundered by the sea, we had no sense of one community. We [...] worked apart and rarely knew that others searched with us for knowledge, too... [V. Cerf,1989] :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 4: :: Web 2.0 ... • Term created by Tim O‘Reilly [et al.] in 2004 [Brainstorming Session @ O‘Reilly Media] :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 5: :: Web 2.0 ... “... is a set of tools that enable group-forming networks to emerge quickly. It includes numerous media, utilities, and applications that empower individual efforts, link individuals together into larger aggregates, interconnect groups, provide metadata about network dynamics, flows, and traffic, allowing social networks to form, clump, become visible, and be measured, tracked, and interconnected” [Saveri, Rheingold and Vian 2005, 22]. “... comprises all of the information and communication technologies that enable the digital networking of individuals and groups. [...] Social Software enables the development of ad-hoc, (non-)centralized networks between users. This kind of network is ostensibly, to borrow a phrase :: RAFFL Celina from emergence theory, more intelligent than the sum of the :: ICT&S Center individual parts“ [Burg 2004, 8sq]. :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 6: :: Web 2.0 ... “... reflect[s] open standards, decentralized infrastructure, flexibility, simplicity, and, perhaps most importantly, active user-participation“ [Stefanac 2007, 237]. “... is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an ‘architecture of participation’, and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 [...]“ :: RAFFL Celina [O’Reilly 2005b, online]. :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 7: :: Web 2.0 ... • New phase of online communication and co-operation • Focus on applications like social networking, blogging, tagging, social bookmarking, or video and photo sharing and no more limited to conventional functionalities [information provision or online shopping] • Online communication, community-formation, and collaboration for co-operative and collaborative knowledge production, dissemination and storage • New possibilities for knowledge management, e-learning and general knowledge technologies, and for virtual communities • New generation of skilled web users with increasing :: RAFFL Celina computer competences: :: ICT&S Center As "produsers" [designers, active contributors] they are active in communities, blogs, and wikis and generate content by aggregating, mashing-up, (re-)interpreting and distributing information. :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 8: :: Web 2.0 ... Web 2.0 • New phase of online communication and co-operation • Focus on applications like social networking, blogging, tagging, social bookmarking, or video and photo sharing and no more limited to conventional functionalities [information provision or online shopping] • Online communication, community-formation, and collaboration for co-operative and collaborative knowledge production, dissemination and storage • New possibilities for knowledge management, e-learning and general knowledge technologies, and for virtual communities • New generation of skilled web users with increasing :: RAFFL Celina computer competences: :: ICT&S Center As "produsers" [designers, active contributors] they are active in communities, blogs, and wikis and generate content by aggregating, mashing-up, (re-)interpreting and distributing information. Web 1.0 :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 9: :: Web 2.0 ... Though this shift in quality of the web has been addressed in several debates, a broad and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of the web is still missing. Therefore we need a critical theory of Internet and Society that conceives the Web as a dynamic techno-social system [cf. Fuchs 2008]. :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center • How can we use the Web for solving problems? • Which forces enable or hinder the beneficial use of the Web? • [How] Can the Web contribute to the realisation of positive potentials that are inherent in contemporary society? :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 10: :: Web 2.0 ... Though this shift in quality of the web has been addressed in several debates, a broad and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of the web is still missing. Therefore we need a critical theory of Internet and Society that conceives the Web as a dynamic techno-social system [cf. Fuchs 2008]. • [How] can we use the Web for solving problems? • Which forces enable or hinder the beneficial use of the Web? :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center • [How] Can the Web contribute to the realisation of positive potentials that are inherent in contemporary society? :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 11: :: A Dynamic Techno-Social System 1 • The Web as dynamic techno-social system • Technological infrastructure [materialised outcome] • Mediated cognition, communication and cooperation => Knowledge processes [Hofkirchner 2002] :: RAFFL Celina • Based upon this idea we came to a new understanding of the Web :: ICT&S Center [Raffl et al. 2008] • Triple-C is also an international peer reviewed open access journal on cognition, communication and co-operation [re-launch in 2008] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 12: :: A Dynamic Techno-Social System 2 :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center [Bichler, Fuchs, Hofkirchner, Raffl, Schafranek 2007] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 13: :: Good Practice Example :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 14: :: Web 1.0 ... Web 2.0 ... :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center [Gillmor 2006] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 15: :: Web 1.0 ... Web 2.0 ... Web 3.0? Web 3.0? :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center 200x? [Gillmor 2006] [Raffl et al. 2008] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 16: :: Web 3.0 ... • Online communication, community-formation, and collaboration for co-operative and collaborative knowledge production, dissemination and storage. • New possibilities for knowledge management, e-learning and general knowledge technologies, and for virtual communities • New generation of skilled web users with increasing computer competences: As "produsers" [designers, active contributors] they are active in communities, blogs, and wikis and generate :: RAFFL Celina content by aggregating, mashing-up, (re-)interpreting :: ICT&S Center and distributing information. :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 17: :: Web 3.0 ... Web 3.0 • Online communication, community-formation, and collaboration for co-operative and collaborative knowledge production, dissemination and storage. • New possibilities for knowledge management, e-learning and general knowledge technologies, and for virtual communities • New generation of skilled web users with increasing computer competences: As "produsers" [designers, active contributors] they are active in communities, blogs, and wikis and generate :: RAFFL Celina content by aggregating, mashing-up, (re-)interpreting :: ICT&S Center and distributing information. “Produsers” are a central ressource for the creation of knowledge. Web 2.0 :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 18: :: Web 3.0 ... ... Will require a totally re-organised role and legacy of • Intellectual Property Rights • Digital Rights Management • Accessability :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 19: :: Web 3.0 ... Like distant islands sundered by the sea, we had no sense of one community. We [...] worked apart and rarely knew that others searched with us for knowledge, too... [V. Cerf,1989] :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 20: Thank You Mag. Celina Raffl ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg :: RAFFL Celina :: ICT&S Center Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 A - 5020 Salzburg Celina.Raffl@sbg.ac.at icts.uni-salzburg.at/raffl :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston

Slide 21: :: Literature • Boyd, Danah (2005). Why Web 2.0 Matters: Preparing for Glocalization [online]. • Burg, Thomas N. (2004). Social Software – An Emancipation. On the Manifold Ways of Making Ideas and Individuals Present and Visible. In: Burg, Thomas N. [ed.]. BlogTalks 2.0, Norderstedt. • Fuchs, Christian (2008). Internet and Society. Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. • Gillmor, Dan (2006) We the Media. Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. Beijing. O’Reilly. • Hofkirchner, Wolfgang (2002). Projekt Eine Welt. Oder Kognition, Kommunikation, Kooperation. Versuch über die Selbstorganisation der Informationsgesellschaft. Münster: LIT. • O’Reilly, Tim (2005a). What Is Web 2.0? [online]. • Raffl, Celina et al. (2008). The Web as Techno-Social System. The Emergence of Web 3.0. In: Trappl, Robert [ed.]. Cybernetics and :: RAFFL Celina Systems 2008, Vienna [pp. 604-609] :: ICT&S Center • Saveri, Andrea/ Rheinhold, Howard/ Vian, Kathi (2005). Technologies of Cooperation. Palo Alto, CA: Institute for the Future. • Stefanac, Suzanne (2007). Dispatches from Blogistan. A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger. Berkeley, CA: New Riders. • triple-C: international peer reviewed open access journal on cognition, communication and co-operation [www.triple-c.at] :: T08 :: Technology, Knowledge & Society :: January 2008 :: Boston