{"id":949,"date":"2007-04-06T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2007-04-06T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T14:05:51","slug":"democratization_and_the_networ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/democratization_and_the_networ\/","title":{"rendered":"democratization and the networked public sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers take note! This just came in from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectivate.net\/journalisms\/\">Trebor Scholz<\/a> at the Institute for Distributed Creativity: a terrific-sounding event next Friday evening at The New School. Really wish I could attend but I&#8217;ll be doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpsp.org\/ngen_public\/article.asp?aid=79\">this<\/a> in London. Details below.<br \/>\n<b>Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere<\/b><br \/>\n* Panel Discussion with dana boyd, Trebor Scholz, and Ethan Zuckerman<br \/>\nFriday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 p.m.<br \/>\nThe New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center<br \/>\n55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor<br \/>\nNew York City<br \/>\nAdmission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ID<br \/>\nThis evening at the Vera List Center for Art &#038; Politics will discuss the potential of sociable media such as weblogs and social networking sites to democratize society through emerging cultures of broad participation.<br \/>\ndanah boyd will argue four points. 1) Networked publics are changing the way public life is organized. 2) Our understandings of public\/private are being radically altered 3) Participation in public life is critical to the functioning of democracy. 4) We have destroyed youths&#8217; access to unmediated public life. Why are we now destroying their access to mediated public life? What consequences does this have for democracy?<br \/>\nTrebor Scholz will present the paradox of affective immaterial labor. Content generated by networked publics was the main reason for the fact that the top ten sites on the World Wide Web accounted for most Internet traffic last year. Community is the commodity, worth billions. The very few get even richer building on the backs of the immaterial labor of very very many.  Net publics comment, tag, rank, forward, read, subscribe, re-post, link, moderate, remix, share, collaborate, favorite, write. They flirt, work, play, chat, gossip, discuss, learn and by doing so they gain much: the pleasure of creation, knowledge, micro-fame, a &#8220;home,&#8221; friendships, and dates. They share their life experiences and archive their memories while context-providing businesses get value from their attention, time, and uploaded content. Scholz will argue against this naturalized &#8220;factory without walls&#8221; and will demand for net publics to control their own contributions.<br \/>\nEthan Zuckerman will present his work on issues of media and the developing world, especially citizen media, and the technical, legal, speech, and digital divide issues that go alongside it. Starting out with a critique of cyberutopianism, Zuckerman will address citizen media and activism in developing nations, their potential for democratic change, the ways that governments (and sometimes corporations) are pushing back on their ability to democratize.<br \/>\nFor more information about the panelists go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectivate.net\/journalisms\/2007\/4\/6\/democratization-and-the-networked-public-sphere-event-at-the-new-school.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers take note! This just came in from Trebor Scholz at the Institute for Distributed Creativity: a terrific-sounding event next Friday evening at The New School. Really wish I could attend but I&#8217;ll be doing this in London. Details below. Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere * Panel Discussion with dana boyd, Trebor Scholz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,620,1273,1295,1731],"tags":[2402],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-event","category-network","category-newyork","category-socialweb","tag-event-network-democracy-socialweb-newyork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}