CCR760 – Sharing is Social, Meaning is Automatic: Web 2.0/3.0 – Social Media Readings

I thought the readings for the week were really interesting, if a little celebratory. . . and why shouldn’t they be?  At its core, it would appear that Web 2.0 is really about extending the realm of sociality from the meat world into digital spaces.  Collaborative web tools like RSS, Delicious, etc., herald a fundamentally different web that embraces constellations of networked social connections and allows for a decentralization (democratization?)... Read More

Ripeanu et. al. – “Gifting Technologies: A Bittorrent Case Study”

Ripeanu, Matei et. al. “Gifting Technologies:  A Bittorrent Case Study.” First Monday 11.11 (2006). 2/15/2010. Ripeanu et.al. set out to discuss how gifting economies work in sharing communities operating bittorrent as their distribution platform.  To address the problem of freeriding in these bittorrent communities, the authors provide two options: 1) provide incentives as direct rewards to members for sharing resources or; 2) consider... Read More

Rajagopal and Bojin – Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy

Rajagopal, Indhu and Nis Bojin. “Cons in the Panopticon:  Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy.” First Monday 9.6 (2004). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1174/1094>. Rajagopal and Bojin argue that the internet is fast becoming a corporately controlled panopticon that regulates the social, economic, and political relationships between users and corporations.  In response to the panopticonization... Read More