[iDC] A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era

[Michael Bauwens]

Dear John,

I'm mentioning your essay on the 25th on our p2p blog.

Just in case of interest,

- we have been collating 'relational research' items at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Relational

and keep an active delicious tag on http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Intersubjectivity,

Michel



----- Original Message ----
> From: John Postill <jpostill at usa.net>
> To: t.bazzichelli at mclink.it; idc at mailman.thing.net
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [iDC] A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era
> 
> 
> > Future
> > reflection on activism and hacker culture should therefore include
> > a deep study of the language and rhetoric of presenting conceptual
> > models and dynamics of networking.
> > 
> 
> For some time now much of our sociological imagination has been reduced to a
> small set of entwined metaphors such as network, community and public sphere.
> Instead of searching for terminological fixes to the growing complexity of our
> world that play on these metaphors I would advocate an 'open lexicon' that
> draws more profusely from the rich sociological and anthropological heritage
> in order to find new terms for new social phenomena. 
> 
> Browse any social science glossary and you will find a wealth of perfectly
> usable or recyclable terms that we hardly ever find in discussions of
> activism, new media, Web 2.0 and so on, e.g. the venerable notion of 'action
> set' = 'a group of actors who operate for political purpose, but without a
> unified, corporate identity' (see also 'action group') (Barnard and Spencer
> 1996, Encyclopaedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology). 
> 
> I have written about the paradigmatic prevalence of community/network-think
> here:
> 
> Postill, J. 2008 Localising the internet beyond communities and networks, New
> Media and Society 10 (3), 413-431
> http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/3/413
> 
> All the best with this initiative, and I look forward to a fruitful dialogue
> on this question
> 
> John
> 
> Dr John Postill
> Senior Lecturer in Media
> Sheffield Hallam University
> Sheffield S11 8UZ
> United Kingdom
> j.postill at shu.ac.uk
> http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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