WEEK ONE RESPONSE
I think with the opportunity to share our ideas and work on the Internet expands our creativity and lets us reach possibilities we would not of imagined until now. Even before we had the Internet, places and people from all over were able to create such art works that we weren’t even aware of. For example how the Japanese do their printmaking; the style is far different from the western culture. The types of artwork from all over the world is a huge variety and were always kept within its area. But the further in our exploration we were able to try different styles/techniques, and the Internet enables us to push our creativity and knowledge of art even more further. But it seems with all this art collaboration it is beginning to be difficult to differentiate what is art and what is just tacky.
What I found interesting is the trust that Rob McEwan would give to complete strangers via the Internet. However wouldn’t people feel like they are taken advantage of since the Goldcorp Inc. would be the ones retrieving all the information and gold themselves. And if there are so many people involved how can the prize money be disribute fairly?
Reading:
Tapscott & Williams “Introduction” & “Wikinomics” 1-33.
Tapscott & Williams “The Perfect Storm” 34-64.
Cory Doctorow, “How Copyright Broke”
Reading Questions and discussion points:
The following are questions to guide your reading and get you started thinking and writing. Feel free to ignore these questions and explore issues that matter to you.
- How do Tapscott and Williams set up the dichotomy between older (corporate) economic models and those of mass collaboration?
- How can industry and business take advantage of Web 2.0?
- What prevents organizations from taking advantage of the web and mass collaboration?
- How do we redefine or refine the processes of production?
- Tapscott and Wiliams begin the “Perfect Storm” chaper with the challenges to copyright posed by digital reproduction; what are the implications for design art and media and its producers?
- How does creating, sharing and collaborating on the web change our notions of art, artists and artistic work?
- What role does trust play in this new cultural environment?
- Much of what we do on the web is socializing. Socializing becomes collaboration. Collaboration becomes peer production. You are part of this networked generation Tapscott and Wiliams talk about; what examples do you have of this kind of social collaboration?
- What are the implications of tagging and folksonomies? How does this practice create “collective intelligence.” How is this realized in delicious.com?
