Web 2.0The Global

Conversation

Rebecca MacKinnon

www.Rconversation.comwww.GlobalVoicesOnline.org

“Back Dorm Boys”

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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“Read-only” vs. “Read-write”

Citizen Media

Dan Gillmor - former San Jose Mercury News

“The former audience”

LECTURE

Media 1.0 Conversation

Media 2.0

1990’s: Web 1.0

My blog as simple example

Of Web 2.0

Writing...

Linking Out

Links create a web of conversation

screenshot: technorati

appear: google & its links

screenshot: technorati

appear: google & its links

Content is freed of container

Syndicate

Feeds

from NYT

“Citizen Journalism:”Professionals lose control of media

New Citizen media projects

Chinese Wikipedia

“Baghdad blogger” Salam Pax

“I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction.”

Then...

High cost of production

Scarcity of space,airtime, etc.

Now...

Low cost of production

Scarcity of attention

The New Media Ecosystem

Source: Morgan Stanley October 2004 report: “Update from the Digital World” by Mary Meeker et. al.

Creative Commons: Sharing our work

choose the license

license your work

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2006 Chinese Blogger Conference, Hangzhou

First Annual Chinese blogger conferenceShanghai, November 2005:

Live webcast, live chat, live bloggingNone of it was censored.

Chinese bloggers share coverage of

Their activities on community photo

Sites like Flickr.com

ZOLA & THE NAILHOUSE

• Internet-> traditional media, then mutual reinforcement

• When media coverage was shut down, there was so much on the internet the ban was ineffectual

• This issue did not really threaten central government legitimacy, so it wasn’t totally censored.

Blog by Sister of Jailed Chinese Filmmaker

Mainland Web 2.0

HK Web2.0

HK Barcamp

Community.

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