July 30th, 2008

Participatory Culture

By: Franz Hartl

Here is a little introduction to one of the more interesting neologisms to sprout up in the past few years: Participatory Culture.  Participatory Culture, a reaction to consumer culture, takes a lot of inspiration from Participatory Democracy. While a new idea, Participatory Culture even has a fancy  501(c)3  to support its ideals

Some of the main intellectual gurus behind the idea are PowerPoint ninja  Lawrence Lessig , Wealth of Networks Author Yochai Benkler  and MIT’s Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities, Henry Jenkins. The idea of participatory culture is of great value when trying to understand why things like wikipedia, flickr, facebook, and other web 2.0 technologies work. 

If one wants to get an understanding of how technology is intersecting law and culture, exploring the above links is not a bad place to start

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