And that’s what we’re seeing about social networks. The same people assembled in different ways can give rise to different properties.
Please join us Tuesday, February 23rd, at 11:30am to help answer… what is “the Medium of Change”.
We’re starting from the basis that it is the emerging ecosystem of social technologies. But what does that include? What doesn’t it?
We’ve started a google wave to capture our conversation and will host a 30 minute skype chat focus our conversation and come up with a basic framework. Sign-up below to take part and spread the word. The more the merrier.
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The Innovation Fair focuses around two critical challenges of development in fragile states:
i. Communications for Governance and Service Delivery: The Innovation Fair will seek out applied research and piloted projects that contribute to building the relationship between citizens and their state at the local and national levels, by using new communications technologies to help: a) deliver services, e.g., health,education, banking and b) encourage civic engagement or improve accountability and transparency
Innovations in the way we think, interact, and structure our lives require just as much imagination, intelligence, persistence, and funding as innovations in technology.
Living Stories try a different approach that plays to certain unique advantages of online publishing. They unify coverage on a single, dynamic page with a consistent URL. They organize information by developments in the story. They call your attention to changes in the story since you last viewed it so you can easily find the new material. Through a succinct summary of the whole story and regular updates, they offer a different online approach to balancing the overview with depth and context.
We’re kicking off a new conversation experiment about the medium of change. On February 23rd we’ll host a short 30 minute voice chat to discuss our most pressing questions about the medium of change. Our challenge though will be to come up with some sort of answer we can post by the end of each call.
What we’ll answer though, is up to you.
Some possible topics that come to mind:
- How is the medium changing change? (let’s explore examples)
- How is the medium changing us? (let’s explore examples)
- What are the components of the medium of change? (let’s map the ecosystem)
- How will it make the most change? (brainstorm applications)
- How might it change xyz? (focus on a specific impact area)
So what do you want to answer?
Conclusions. New media were not about escape but about creating local belonging. These boundary model mpas the entanglements of digital media but also of public visibility. You can’t understand them without understand why a public coming out is so important to LGBTQ youths. They’re not only struggling about coming out, but they also lack info about being visible. And, pollicy analysts ought to be studyhing “:the nexus among media, sexual and gender politics, and broader structures of social inequalities.
The latest report from the Kaiser Family Foundation which found that those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with media devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when the study was last conducted.
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate a rural queer identity. Think about what this means for the health and safety of queer youth. Think about what this means for the future of tolerance.
