Final Blog Question

Here is the formal topic of the final blog post:

All of you have worked on a project that involves the relationship between web2.0 and the broader community.  While we have not had too much actual community interaction (yet), I would like you to try and tie your work on the project to the broader questions of the course.  Please take no more than 3 hours to write a simple blog post that addresses the relationship between your project and the bigger themes of the four spheres and their relative positions toward one another as they are affected by web2.0.  Imagine the outcomes of a project like yours on a larger scale (or on the same small scale but widely replicated).  How would this shift the balance among the spheres?  How would it impact the well-being of the community overall?  Are there any disadvantages?

Thanks to all of you for a fantastic semester!

 

 

 

The Conversation Prism

Found this when I was surfing for information for the group project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

Thought it was pretty interesting and has a ton of Web 2.0 sites.

Facebook Tracking Under Scrutiny

Changing the course page! Yes!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2011-11-15/facebook-privacy-tracking-data/51225112/1

Update for November 16

Just a quick note.  Here’s the journalism article from which I excerpted only the final paragraphs for our exercise on Monday.  http://www.cjr.org/feature/confidence_game.php?page=all

Update for November 7

Keeping with the reading themes, please devote your next blog post to one of the following topics:

1. You may discuss the interaction between the private sphere and the public sphere.  In general terms how has the introduction of web2.0 changed the relative balance between public sphere and the private sphere or changed the nature of those spheres?  In what ways does it encourage diversity? in what ways homogeneity?
2. You may discuss the interaction between the public sphere and the market sphere.  How does the web reshape the balance between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations?
3. If you have not already done so, you can your project work with a blog entry that begins to offer specific details about the projects we have outlined, toward which end I have given all students a formal editorial role in this website.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Update for October 29

Keeping wit the reading themes, please devote your next blog post to one of the following topics:

1. If you have not already done so, you may discuss the interaction between the state sphere and the public sphere.  In general terms how has the introduction of web2.0 changed the relative balance between the public sphere and the state sphere, either the electoral competitions of the United States or the non-electoral contributions of the Middle East.
2. Moving away from the state sphere, you may discuss the interaction between the market and private sphere, which I have defined here in terms of private sector data gathering and individual adoption of corporate branding as part of identity formation, both of which are interesting topics
3. You can also begin your project work with a blog entry that addresses how to begin the projects we have outlined, toward which end I have given all students a formal editorial role in this website (you can even change this page, though you do so at your peril and have created one “page” for each of the projects.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Update for October 15

As we discussed in class but I perhaps did not spell out in enough detail, I would like to see your next blog post address the following question:

We are discussing the interaction between the state sphere and the private and (later) the market sphere.  In general terms, what is the rough balance of power between the state and private (or the state and market) spheres in contemporary America?  How does (if at all) web2.0 change that balance?

Let me know if you have any questions.