tedxshanghai: new online commons
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Wikipedia and Twitter, supporting open many-to-many communications and participation, form a new online commons. This supports a deliberative adhocracy slicing through geographic, ethnic and economic classes. With this, journalism still has an important role, by guiding citizens towards wisdom at the top of the information pyramid.TRANSCRIPT
The New Online Commons
The Internet’s New Public Spaces
Andrew LihThe Wikipedia Revolution
15 June 2009
One Many
One
Many
Old Media
In personPhone call
PublishingBroadcasting
Letter to editor
Call-in show
One Many
One
Many
Web 1.0 Media
Email, SMSInstant
message
Email blastWeb site, CMS
Feedback form
Comments
Chat roomMailing list
One Many
One
Many
Web 2.0 Media
FacebookLinkedIn
(Discovery)
Blogging
Blogcomments Wikipedia
One Many
One
Many
Directmessage
µ blogging
@username #hashtag
One Many
One
Many
Commons
Wikipedia(Knowledge commons)
Twitter(Information commons)
Metaphors: WikipediaCommunity names: village pump, forum,
esplanade
Commons properties
Open and accessibleNavigable
Human-orientedSafe
Adaptable
Wikipedia and Twitter
Community driven norms
Situated (custom) software
Fast adaptationLow participation
barrierPublic spaces/zeitgeist
Distinction
“Free culture” and Creative Commons
vs.Communications
commons creating public spaces
Lessig
“weirdly totalitarian” communications of the 20th century
yields to “read/write”
M2M Information Pyramid
Information / messaging
data / transmission
knowledge / collaboration
wisdom
Wikipedia
P2P, BitTorrent
?
News industry
Journalism not doomed
Guiding the public to wisdom
Fortune at the top of the pyramid?
A new digital commons has
emerged as a global public space for discourse and
deliberation, fulfilling a journalistic need
The old monolithic media giants will go away for
good
A modern and diverse news landscape will be re-
constituted in these public spaces
Approach
Democracy x
Socialism x
Deliberative adhocracy √
For China,a technology first
adopted for entertainment, can
be a deliberative space designed for
social justice