1. Newswork Online The Participatory Challenge by TreborScholz

2. Chronology of Collaboration

3. 1945 – Vannevar Bush was the founder of hyperlinked pages (the core idea of the World Wide Web) 1960 – Ted Nelson founder of the hypertext project ‘Xanadu’ 1980 – Tim Berners-Lee independent researcher at CERN 1989 – Berners-Lee conceptualised the World Wide Web using hypertext

4. Online Collaboration

5. Online collaboration allows groups of people to work together in real-time over the Internet Growing numbers of users/producers makes use of cooperation enhancing tools like blogs and wikis

6. Example: del.icio.us Social bookmarking web service

7. Question In what ways do you as a regular member of society contribute to a broader online culture?

8. The Cultural Context Provider

9. The Artist as a Cultural Context Provider “We are the initiators and coordinators rather than absolute authors. User participation and contributions make the fundamental core of the work that needs to be done.” Natalie Bookchin and Jackie Stevens (creators ofagoraXchange)

10. Art Curator vs Media Art Curator Art Curator Media Art Curator

11. Blurs the lines between the artist, theorist and curator Today, artistic production is more than just making informed aesthetic choices “The high times of the individual, solitary artist genius are over.”

12. Example: ArsElectronica An that specialises in festivals for art, technology and society

13. The Hierarchies of the Internet Gift Economy

14. The Internet offers a common area for sharing and the creation of large resource pools Users can store resources such as pieces of code, music mp3 files, movies, artworks or texts Unregulated commons; content can be created, distributed and mixed “There is almost no limit to what is shared”

15. Example: CCMixter Users can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way we want

16. Extreme Sharing Networks

17. Extreme sharing networks (ESN) are conscious, loosely knit groups based on commonalities, bootstrap economies, and shared ethics They allow people to freely meet, mobilise and share talents, context and resources An ESN is only successful if networkers are free agents, not followers

18. ESNs provide the platform on which users can share and produce their work Blogs and wikis are important but without a need for a social group they will not go so far, a social network needs to connect The creation of relationships between individuals within the network is essential

19. Question What implications does online participation have on journalism?

20. “The public forum function of journalism has cracked wide open with the creation of theWorld Wide Web; the Internet opens up this journalistic function in the most wideranging and profound way. Its virtue is not individual but social, the virtue of interaction, of conversation, of an easy and agreeable democratic sociability.”

21. Case Study: SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) A significant amount of SBS offerings are online that include: Extension of TV and radio content Online exclusive content Platforms for user management Nowadays online interaction is expected for the media experience of many Australians

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