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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: May 2008
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The battle between citizen journalists and the professionals. The concept of citizen journalism is not new, its history stretches as far back as the printing press itself. Back then printers not only published newspapers, but also published materials for paying clients who "engaged in little newsgathering. And instead were predominantly vehicles for opinion". ( Papandrea. The idea of today's citizen journalist is the same as the concept of ' produsage. Is to circumvent the gatekee...
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: Online Communities
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I'd like to begin by defining the term online (or virtual) community, and I particularly liked the Howard Rheingold. He defines online communities as "social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on public discussion long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace" (Fernback and Thompson, 1995). Another topic explored this week was the reasons for joining an online community. Apart from somewhat obvious...
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: An Introduction
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Monday, April 14, 2008. My name is Phoebe and this is my blog for KCB201 Virtual Cultures. This is my first foray into the wonderful world of blogging, so we'll see how things go! This is designed to be a way of discussing and delving deeper into what we cover in Virtual Cultures. I'm finding it interesting and I hope you do too. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog. A blog exploring issues and ideas raised in KCB201. Open Source Software - Brazil takes on Mighty Micr.
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: Open Source Software - Brazil takes on Mighty Microsoft
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Open Source Software - Brazil takes on Mighty Microsoft. What drives us to take elements out, develop them and put them back in and thus drive open source software? As we examine this week, there are several possible reasons:. Necessary fixing or improvement of code - if something is not quite right, it needs to be fixed. For example, Firefox. Was developed as an alternative to Internet Explorer and all its 'bugs'. 2008) So even if open source development begins with a single d...
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: Produsers Are The Future
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Produsers Are The Future. In recent years there has been an undeniable change in the way we interact with the World Wide Web. This shift has been described as Web 2.0, but how do we describe the people who are doing the interacting? But then we began to network, we began to coordinate and collaborate and 'production' was no longer an accurate way to describe the "creative, collaborative and ad hoc. Engagement" we had with user-led content ( Bruns. Fluid movement of produsers.
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: The battle between citizen journalists and the professionals
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The battle between citizen journalists and the professionals. The concept of citizen journalism is not new, its history stretches as far back as the printing press itself. Back then printers not only published newspapers, but also published materials for paying clients who "engaged in little newsgathering. And instead were predominantly vehicles for opinion". ( Papandrea. The idea of today's citizen journalist is the same as the concept of ' produsage. Is to circumvent the gatekee...
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Phoebe's Virtual Cultures Blog: Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Web 10 vs Web 2.0. I'd like to begin with a confession - before researching this topic I thought that Web 2.0 was a software upgrade. Yes, I believed I could download Web 2.0 when I got sick of using Web 1.0. But what does it mean when I say Web 1.0 and Web 2.0? Web 20 describes the move towards networking, information sharing and collaboration using Internet technologies. The term 'Web 2.0' was actually first used by Tim O'Reilly. By 2005, Tim O'Reilly. Of Web 2.0:. Said the ter...