A glimpse into our Web 2.0 selves.

STORYTELLING IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE:

SECTION 1: What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?

(Michael Wesch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g.)

“We Are The Machine”7

7. Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” (accessed March 2, 2009).

Mediascape: User-generated _____

Mediascape

5. Michael Wesch, “An anthropological introduction to youtube,” (July 26, 2008), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU (accessed March 2, 2009).

USER-Generated Production: Content | Youtube, Blogs, etc. Filtering | Digg.com Organization | Del.icio.us, Flickr: Tagging Distribution | RSS, Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, etc. Commentary | Blogs Ranking | Technorati5

SECTION 2: Web 2.0 Storytelling

Web 2.0 Storytelling | Examples

Social Media Dramas: Lonelygirl15, Story2Oh

Non-Fiction: Best of Craigslist, Blog, Vlog The Re[mix] Twitter Art = Twart

The Machine is Us | So what?

11. Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media,” Routledge Classics, 2005, 264.

[Artists] know that they are engaged in making live models of situations that have not yet matured in the society at large. In their artistic play, they discovered what is actually happening, and thus they appear to be ‘ahead of their time.’ Non-artists always look at the present through the spectacles of the preceding age.11

EXAMPLE: Web 1.0: Form/Content - Mezangelle

(http://www.benstack.com.au/images/finnegans_wake._ink_on_paper..jpg)

Anti-Environments

10. Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, “War and Peace in the Global Village,” Ginko Press: California, 1997, 175.

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in. ... What fish are able to see bears a close analogy to that degree of awareness which all people have in relation to any new environment created by a new technology--just about zero. Yet despite a very limited sensory life, the fish has an essence or built-in potential which eliminates all problems from its universe. It is always a fish and always manages to continue to be a fish while it exists at all. Such is not, by any means, the case with man10

Teaching the Machine We are the Machine

“The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking the mental models that are our standard equipment, applying them to new subjects in selective analogies and assembling them into new and more sophisticated combinations.”11

Steven Pinker, “The Stuff of Thought,” 439.

SECTION 3: The Electric Crowd

--Form | Content--

1. Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” (March 8, 2007), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g (accessed March 2, 2009).

2. Michael Wesch, “An anthropological introduction to youtube,” (July 26, 2008), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU (accessed March 2, 2009).

3. Ibid.4. Daniel Terdimann, “Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica,” CNET News (December 15, 2005),

http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html (accessed March 4, 2009).

Blogs--A blog is born every half-second1

YouTube--9,232 hours of content uploaded per day2

YouTube--88% of all content is New & Original3

Wikipedia--Only 3.86 errors/report vs. 2.92 for Britannica4

WEB 2.0 => Form & Content are separated--We are all Contributors--

Web 2.0 Storytelling| Implications

Web 2.0 is the platform of play to learn more about our selves and our world

In storytelling, Web 2.0 serves as the ultimate “Looking Glass”

Important Facet of the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Traits

Information Harvesters/Hunters : Building a core conscience

Perserving the Spell: An interplay of Mutual & Individual Knowledge

Echology: Everything affects everything

Simultaneously knows everything and nothing Individuation of Community: One, Two, Many …

Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Traits

Harvesters/Hunters of Information: Building a core conscience Knowledge

Perserving the Spell: An interplay of Mutual & Individual Knowledge

Echology: Everything affects everything

Simultaneously knows everything and nothing Individuation of Community: One, Two, Many …

Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Implications

11. Miwa Suzuki, “Japan child robot mimicks infant learning,” PhysOrg.com, (April 5, 2009), http://www.physorg.com/news158151870.html (April 17, 2009).

12. Steven Pinker, “The Stuff of Thought,” 137.

Individuation of Community "Babies and infants have very, very limited

programmes. But they have room to learn more.”11

The brain must develop to a certain point of maturity before it can individuate objects by their kind; babies learn words to communicate only after this development11

Important Facet of the Evolution of Electric Crowd

11. Steven Pinker, “The Language Instinct,” BCA: London, 2000, 117.

Grammar offers a clear refutation of the empiricist doctrine that there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses. Traces, cases, X-bars, and the other paraphernalia of syntax are colorless, odorless, and tasteless, but they, or something like them, must be a part of our unconscious mental life.11

Important Facet of the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Implications

The Wisdom of the Electric Crowd

Diversity of opinion Each person should have private information even if

it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.

Independence People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of

those around them.

Decentralization People are able to specialize and draw on local

knowledge.

Aggregation Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments

into a collective decision.8

8. James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds: …,” Wikipedia (March 5, 2009) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_Crowds (accessed April 15, 2009).

Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Tetrad (beta)

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