Roundtable #2: THE CROWD
Get ready for the second Digital Nation roundtable - which will look beyond the original Frontline documentary to some of the many ideas and issues this inquiry has spawned and suggested.
For the month of March, we'll be discussing "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. Open Source, Crowd-sourcing, The Mob, The fate of the Individual, and the rise of the Folk.
Our participants will include:
Danah Boyd - Social Media Researcher, Microsoft Research; Fellow, Berkman Center of Internet and Society, co-author, Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out. http://danah.org
Amy Bruckman - Associate Professor, Electronic Learning Communities, Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/index.shtml
Nicholas Carr - author, The Big Switch and the forthcoming The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. http://roughtype.com
Kevin Kelly - Senior Maverick, Wired magzine. Author, Out of Control, and What Technology Wants - coming in October http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/
Mark Pesce - co-inventor of VRML, founder, FutureSt social web consultancy, author, Share This Book (upcoming) http://www.sharethiscourse.org/
Clay Shirky - NYU Interactive Telecommunications Programm, author Here Comes Everybody http://www.shirky.com/
RU Sirius - co-founder, Mondo2000, Editor, H+ magazine http://www.hplusmagazine.com/
Sherry Turkle - Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, author, The Second Self, Simulations and Its Discontents, and Alone Together (forthcoming) http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/techself/
Jimmy Wales - Co-founder, Wikipedia. Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
You can begin to participate NOW by uploading your own videos and comments to the YourStories page, click on UPLOAD VIDEO and submit your own thoughts or experiences with the digital crowd, online mobs, the joys of open source or the perils of crowdsourcing.
posted February 2, 2010
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