Neighborhood Transcends Geography in a Connected World
In 1962 or 1963, my (long-deceased) ham-radio-operator father predicted that as long-distance communications became ubiquitous due to technical advances, “In another generation or two, ‘neighborhoods’...
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Digital Communities Are Very Real
Until very recently, human communities were traditionally built upon shared values, geographic proximity and durability. Globalization and the breathtaking speed at which new media have expanded have...
View ArticleDigitally Lame
This is a draft of an article I’ve been working on concerning the accelerating affect that online social networking has had on cultural mores. I would love thoughts and comments. John Fischer Associate...
View ArticleYahoo Faces Competiton from Social Media
Yahoo was downgraded today by S&P to “sell” from “hold.” Why? Well, it just jumped 8%, but S&P believes “Yahoo faces notable competition from emerging social media businesses.” That is, the...
View ArticleIs there such a thing as “the” community?
BRADENTON, FLORIDA – Two friends and I spent Sunday evening at a local skating rink videotaping a Bradentucky Bombers roller derby match. Bradenton seems to be developing its own roller derby...
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Wii Have a Community
I find the phrase “citizen journalism” is in some cases far too weighty a label for the most interesting examples of the activity. Not every CJ site is about global warming or local democracy in...
View ArticleCreating Stronger “Connected” Communities
In my opinion, a community in a connected world is a group of people who effect collective actions through active participation and communication. Generally, communities in an unconnected world are not...
View ArticleShould You Pay Your Community’s Contributors?
From The World Economic Forum comes the news that YouTube will start paying those who upload videos. First of all… at the World Economic Forum… a YouTube announcement? Shouldn’t the folks there be...
View ArticleBlogging, Podcasting change lives in Belarus and Uzbekistan
The modern world powered by technology has drastically altered our traditional understanding of what a community is. However, in a shift from physical to the virtual, the term “community” has retained...
View ArticleYelvington Earns NAA Innovator Award
Congratulations to Steve Yelvington for being named 2007 Online Innovator of the Year by the Newspaper Association of America. I like Steve’s visions of the evolution of media, I like that he still...
View ArticleUniversity of Georgia: Linking “Connected” Communities
I’m not sure there’s a better-defined “community” than the members of a college or university. Student, faculty, staff, alumni and friends generally have strong feelings and ties to the institution...
View ArticleWorld Economic Forum Webcast: Leveraging the Power of People
If you have some time, check out the webcast of Jan. 27th’s Web 2.0 session from the World Economic Forum, called “How Web 2.0 will mould the future.” The panelists focused on social networking and...
View ArticleCan New Technologies Help Strengthen Relationships Worldwide?
Coming from the perspective of both a technology person working on international peace-building campaigns and a professor teaching a video-conferenced course entitled “Globalizing Social Activism and...
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Get a First Life
If you’ve been a little bemused or underwhelmed by the goings-on in Second Life (Swedish embassy, Reuters news bureau) this Get a First Life parody will probably hit the spot. First Life is a 3D analog...
View ArticleTechnology Facilitates Community-Media Convergence
Broadly speaking, “community” can mean a locality, a school, a vocation, even an entire ethnic group or religion – any group bound by a common interest or condition. It may be small, it may be big. The...
View ArticleApple reimburses bloggers $700,000 in legal fees
What does it really mean to be an independent journalist, reporting on the activities of the titans of industry? Well, it means that you can be exposed to some tremendous risk, financial and otherwise....
View ArticleRedesigning the Connected Community at P.O.V. Interactive
For the past twenty years, P.O.V. has presented groundbreaking documentary films on PBS, working with filmmakers both emerging and established to present their perspectives to a national audience. The...
View ArticleRhizome.org: Enhancing artistic collaboration online
Community is diverse, pluralistic, and alive. It develops around shared interests and passions, and carefully balances mass collaboration and personal expression. Rhizome’s value lies in its community,...
View ArticleOnline Social Networks: Good For You
Communicating with each other online might turn out to be more than just a fun way to spend time — it may keep us sane, or even save our lives. An article in the Archives of General Psychiatry says...
View ArticleSearch Wiki to offer for-profit, community-filtered search
Can a community actively involved in the development of search make it better? Jimmy Wales seems to think so…. At a crowd sponsored by Free Culture at NYU, Wales (Wikipedia’s founder) talked at length...
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