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Behalf Of Michael Zimmer
Sent: 09 January 2007 19:53
To: STSGRAD
Subject: Call for Panelists: Web 2.0 at AoIR 8.0
Colleagues - I'm proposing a panel at the Association of Internet
Researchers conference in Vancouver this October. Topic is "Critical
Perspectives on Web 2.0" - a draft panel proposal is attached. Send me a
note off-line if interested, and I'll give more details regarding
abstract submission etc. (Due date for panel submission is Feb 1)
Thanks,
michael
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Michael T. Zimmer
Doctoral Candidate, Culture and Communication, New York University
Student Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU Law School
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Call for Panelists
Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play
October 17 - 20, 2007
Vancouver, BC
http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=6
Draft Panel Proposal: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Web 2.0 represents a (playful) blurring of the boundaries between Web
users and producers, consumption and participation, authority and
amateurism, play and work, data and the network, reality and virtuality.
The rhetoric surrounding Web 2.0 infrastructures presents certain
cultural claims about media, identity, and technology. It suggests that
everyone can and should use new Internet technologies to organize and
share information, to interact within communities, and to express
oneself. It promises to empower creativity, to democratize media
production, and to celebrate the individual while also relishing the
power of collaboration and social networks. Websites such as Flickr,
Wikipedia, del.icio.us, MySpace, and YouTube are all part of this
second-generation Internet phenomenon, which has spurred a variety of
new services and communities - and venture capitalist dollars.
But Web 2.0 also embodies a set of unintended consequences, including
the increased flow of personal information across networks, the
diffusion of one's identity across fractured spaces, the emergence of
powerful tools for peer surveillance, and the fear of increased
corporatization of online social and collaborative spaces and outputs.
In Technopoly, Neil Postman warned that we tend to be "surrounded by the
wondrous effects of machines and are encouraged to ignore the ideas
embedded in them. Which means we become blind to the ideological meaning
of our technologies" (1992, p. 94). As the power and ubiquity of the Web
2.0 infrastructure rises, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to
recognize its externalities, and easier to take the design of such tools
simply "at interface value" (Turkle, 1995, p. 103).
Heeding Postman and Turkle's warnings, this panel will work to remove
the blinders of the unintended consequences of Web 2.0's (playful)
blurring of boundaries and critically explore the social, political, and
ethical dimensions of Web 2.0.
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