Charles Leadbeater (2009) 'We Think'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qiP79vYsfbo
Quote: "In the 2000s and early 2010s, we tended to view social media through the prism of decentralized networks and the economics of information. We focused upon the possibilities of open platforms, peer collaboration, content sharing, and bottom-up knowledge sharing as the core elements of digital society and culture. In terms of trust, what was implied by the networked information economy was that we could collectively verify information through access to multiple data sources, with the historic filters presented by mass media and other gatekeepers being significantly diminished. The newly networked and empowered 'Fifth Estate' of digital citizens (Dutton, 2009) could challenge the entrenched authority of the main- stream news media, in a world where, as Yochai Benkler observed in The Wealth of Networks, 'the removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information. . . core structuring facts in the new networked information economy' (Benkler, 2006, p. 4). In short, Wikipedia meets Wikileaks" (Flew, T., 2021, p.166). About: "This video based on the illustrations made by Debbie Powell and animated by Tim Cowie explains the main ideas in the book." https://www.charlesleadbeater.net/we-think Note: a technological utopian manifesto for what became 'amateur participatory culture / amateur cultural production'. Further: https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7ZpWecIS8&t=16s Example: 'Star Wars Uncut' (2010). http://www.starwarsuncut.com/about http://newpractices.co.uk/Horizons/#GjsFAZWnA00 Example: David Maister (2006). 'Setting Knowledge Free: A Conversation with Steve Rubel about Blogging' https://davidmaister.com/articles/24/91/ Example: 'Michael Wesch To Discuss "The Anthropology of YouTube" at Library of Congress on June 23' (2008). The Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-08-104/ Example: 'amateur cultural production' http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?keyword=7285 Bibliography: Leadbeater, C. (2009). 'We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production'. Profile Books. Boyd, D. (2014). "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens". Yale University Press. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281562649_It%27s_Complicated_The_Social_Lives_of_Networked_Teens Shirky, C. (2011). 'Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Into Collaborators'. Penguin USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Surplus Flew, T. (2021). 'The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics'. Journal of Communication, 71(2), 163–186. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab006 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8135436/pdf/jqab006.pdf Leadbeater, C. (2009). 'We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production'.
