For the past few weeks, students involved with C4FCM have been hopping between meetings, brainstorming ideas for new technologies and applications for existing technologies that can promote civic engagement and community building. A laundry list of desirable traits for new technologies with civic potential is emerging. New technologies deployed within […]
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There’s a group of Australian folks who have put a virtual candidate up for office, Senator On-Line. The idea is that every time a vote is required they’ll simply poll the internet and see how their senator should vote!
Some critics of the idea of participatory culture have argued that only a small percentage of people want to generate or share content with other people. Even advocates such as Bradley Horowitz have argued for a pyramid of participation in which a small group at top become creators while others […]
I recently had the privilege of being an outside examiner on a dissertation produced by Jean Burgess, a PhD candidate in the Creative Industries program at Queensland University of Technology on the topic of “vernacular creativity.” I’ve long considered QUT’s Creative Industries program to be a sibling of our own […]
Wikinews is a wiki in which users write news articles collaboratively. The project, established in 2004, is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that also supports Wikipedia. Wikinews has produced over 37,000 articles in 22 languages, with roughly one quarter of those in the English language version of the […]