Pedagogy, Organizing and Wiki

Presentors: MarkDilley and Karen Miller

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Submission Date: May 7, 2007 - end of day.

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Title: What does it mean to think in Wiki?

Overstatment: Wiki is a technological form that shifts and actually changes how people understand themselves and their social identities.

We think that it promotes a way of critical thinking in wasys that you are

as you move throw the wiki world, ratehre that n being a passive consumer you are forced to make decisison.. you always know that you can change things.

You are always deciding whether or not you are goign to change things, the whole process is more clear to you. You will choose not to change things most of the time. There is a tipping point where you will change something. That is differnt because it is way different than all medias.

When we criticize other media, it is post production. With wiki you are always in process of production. Versions are great, criticism is embedded in the production itself.

Brainstorming

What is the relationship between subjectivity between the individual and the technology of wiki

Cultivates a new sensibility

See your effects immediately.. really encourages critical thinking. Encouarages you to evaluate things. Instead of just complaining, you can engage it and change it. Makes you see the consquences of your own actions. This is all ideal, because the status quo is easier to change which can give hope that change can be affective more broadly.

It is a language of hypertext -

Low barriers to entry.

• Face to Face very important
• Technology doesn't constitute subjectivity.
• Technology is just one more tool people can use to create the world they want

• Organizing using the internet, specifically wiki, as an ethos.
  • Self-organization: the spontaneous emergence of global coherence out of local interactions.
  • Self organizing nature of the simple technology of wiki, challenges top down or expert model. Allows for average person to get their hands dirty, with minimal intro. I think that people will come to it from fresh off the internet. Folks who are on the internet will continue to use their familiar tools.
  • Importance of f2f interaction, including phone to establish some emotional basis for the continued internet interactions.
  • use debate on communicate or die. While using f2f how do use technology that don’t dismiss the importance of f2f – how does f2f contact help shape, not trying to use to replace, enhance after trust is built, recognize tech never replace live contact. Myth that new technology will make traditional ways of communicating obsolete, tech is being used reduce human contact, but not changing the fundamental need of people who need, it is used to speed up workers, it is not a revolution of information, it is another way to control people. Myth is changing ideas and what excites me about wiki is it provides an opportunity to subvert ruling class hegemony.
  • Distributive Action Research
  • OneStopSign town.. turn into Metropolis of SelfOrganized Knowledge
• RealNames – allows for anonymous input, but being connected that is not anonymity.
• Brainstorm Community, PortlandPatternRepository, MeatballWiki, CommunityWiki
• Psudonyms, damaging
• Wikipedia
• Rumsfeld and his CEO – using business tactics to organize military right now. People imagine that technology shapes consciousness. He is business vision of tech, I have people vision, want to help shape technology in that vision
• Absence of the Sacred, the failure of technology and the survival of Indian nations.
• Ideas of tech we have through pop culture are mostly about ruling class ideas, which are
• Scale is fundamental to technology. Geographers / philosopher. Technology – the way that wiki scales – one wiki – all wiki –still are all sitting on your ass in front of the computer screen.

Research

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