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Because several people have asked for the Clay Shirky reference, I'm including it here: The text I'm referring to is Here Comes Everybody, a fantastic book on the social revolution resulting from the mass adoption of new media technologies. Shirky's a professor at NYU and the book is a thrilling read. Among is arguments is one that I think all of the members of this listserv may identify with:
"Life teaches us that motivations other than getting paid aren't enough to add up to serious work. And now we have to unlearn that lesson, because it is less true with each passing year.... The twentieth century, with the spread of radio and television, was the broadcast century. The normal pattern for media was that they were created by a small group of professionals and then delivered to a large group of consumers. But media, in the world's literal sense as the middle layer between people, have always been a three-part affair. People like to consume media, of course, but they also like to produce it ("Look what I made!") and they like to share it ("Look what I found!"). Because we now have media that support both making and sharing, as well as consuming, those capabilities are reappearing, after a century mainly given over to consumption. We are used to a world where little things happen for love and big things happen for money. Love motivates people to bake a cake and money motivates people to make an encyclopedia. Now, though, we can do big things for love."
~~ Jenna McWilliams Learning Sciences Program, Indiana University ~ http://jennamcwilliams.blogspot.com http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.com ~ jenmcwil@indiana.edu jennamcjenna@gmail.com On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Elia Nelson wrote:
I offer a term from my colleagues in Science & Technology Studies: as a contraction of 'constrains' and 'enables,' we often find ourselves usingthe specific nature of the technology "shapes" or "constrains" (not "detemines", for heaven's sake) behavior in specific ways through the specific affordances it provides to its user.'constrables' in this exact context. Elia ------------------------------------------ Elia J. Nelson, nelsoe3@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dept. of Lang., Lit., & Comm. _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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