Participatory Technologies and Culture 2.0

Slide 1: Katie Lips Social Media & Participation in Cultural Projects Futuresonic, Manchester, 1st May 2008

Slide 2: I participate as... Web & Social Media Mobile 2.0 Person & Member entrepreneur of “Euro www.treasuremytext.com 2.0 scene” Technology in many places online Advisor to Arts Organisations www.kisky.co.uk

Slide 3: Participation through Contribution Strategize and Facilitate new Discuss advise ways of working Connect Create new services and spaces for platforms participation

Slide 4: A participatory media project

Slide 5: Bold Street Project

Slide 6: Bold Street Project www.boldstreet.org.uk/blog

Slide 7: Bold Street Project • 600 pictures on Flickr • 20+ videos on YouTube • Thousands of online viewers • Hundreds of online collaborators

Slide 8: Does Social Media truly enable Creative Participation?

Slide 9: Real “Participation”? • New diverse on and offline audience • Whole community involvement & promotion • Audience given chance to collaborate • Audience becomes artists • Audience / artists also project evangelists • Open Art: Continually Evolving

Slide 10: Issues around participation

Slide 11: 2.0 not SEO • Web2.0 is not just about better SEO • There’s "Opportunity in Community"

Slide 12: Virtual Participation • Can you truly participate as an avatar? • Is Second Life “antisocial media”?

Slide 13: People NOT Technology • Social Technologies are nothing without real world interactions • My Social Media is online, offline, ubiquitous • Not about technology but people

Slide 14: Personal Participation • Participate in many ways: Identify + Search + Discuss + Attend + Create + Review + Share • Participate in the activity AND in the creating the “meta mesh”

Slide 15: Participation as strategy • Social Media developments / tools / platforms mean “participation” is a strategy for commerce • Can it also be a strategy for artistic / cultural projects

Slide 16: Audience Participation • The right to feedback? • The expectation to feedback?

Slide 17: Culture of 2.0 • Are we adopting the principles of 2.0? • (“Organisation 2.0” not just “Web 2.0”)

Slide 18: Coming Soon.... www.culture-tank.com