Post by afifatabassum on Mar 12, 2024 3:47:02 GMT
When day after day you read and delve into new techno-social phenomena it becomes difficult to be captured by a 300-page tome in English, which deals with those same topics. Then you find the time to start reading “ Here comes Everybody ” by Clay Shirky and you find yourself devising the most absurd tactics to avoid reaching the conclusion too quickly. Yes, because Shirky, who is a great storyteller, has constructed his book as a story, full of illuminating examples, of the epochal changes that the use of new technologies, based on an " architecture of participation ", are producing on society. According to Shirky , new social tools , such as blogs, wikis, social networks, produce an interesting social effect only when they become technologically boring .
They basically allow the reduction of two Brazil Phone Number types of costs: production/publication costs and transaction costs (the managerial costs of managing organizations). As a result of the dissolution of the former, the phenomenon of "mass amateurization" is determined, i.e. the transfer towards the community of skills/possibilities previously relegated to a professional sphere (think of the role of the journalist). Hence the generalized inversion of the previous pattern "first I filter and then I publish". The elimination of the latter, however, makes the creation of groups and cooperation between individuals simple, outside the boundaries and rules of an institution or organization (e.g. pressure groups or flash mobs ).
In summary, what is happening today is the connection between amateur production ( the category of "consumer" is no longer a permanent identity, but only a transitory behavior ), and symmetrical participation ( when people receive information they are also capable of transmitting it easily to others ). But for a social instrument to have any chance of working it must be based, in order, on three elements: – a promise , e.g. to be able to participate in the "dissemination" of global knowledge with a small contribution - a tool that makes the promise realizable, e.g. a wiki capable of collecting and organizing those small contributions – a clear and balanced agreement between the parties, e.g. that the individual's contribution remains available to all and is not transformed into a commercial work.
They basically allow the reduction of two Brazil Phone Number types of costs: production/publication costs and transaction costs (the managerial costs of managing organizations). As a result of the dissolution of the former, the phenomenon of "mass amateurization" is determined, i.e. the transfer towards the community of skills/possibilities previously relegated to a professional sphere (think of the role of the journalist). Hence the generalized inversion of the previous pattern "first I filter and then I publish". The elimination of the latter, however, makes the creation of groups and cooperation between individuals simple, outside the boundaries and rules of an institution or organization (e.g. pressure groups or flash mobs ).
In summary, what is happening today is the connection between amateur production ( the category of "consumer" is no longer a permanent identity, but only a transitory behavior ), and symmetrical participation ( when people receive information they are also capable of transmitting it easily to others ). But for a social instrument to have any chance of working it must be based, in order, on three elements: – a promise , e.g. to be able to participate in the "dissemination" of global knowledge with a small contribution - a tool that makes the promise realizable, e.g. a wiki capable of collecting and organizing those small contributions – a clear and balanced agreement between the parties, e.g. that the individual's contribution remains available to all and is not transformed into a commercial work.