PARTICIPATION LITERACY PART 1: CONSTRUCTING THE WEB 2.0 CONCEPT

e licentiate thesis is a piece of academic work under the theme of /Participation Literacy/.The thesis concerns the Web 2.0 concept construction. Web 2.0 is a new mindseton the Internet. The main characteristics include ”Web as a Platform”, CollectiveIntelligence, Folksonomy and interfaces build with lightweight technologies such asAjax. Web 2.0 is not only a technique, but also an ideology – an ideology of participation.A Web 2.0 service is completely web based and generally draws on open access. It includestools for people to interact within areas such as encyclopaedias, bookmarks, photos, booksor research articles. All Web 2.0 services are web communities.......
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PARTICIPATION LITERACY PART 1: CONSTRUCTING THE WEB 2.0 CONCEPTPARTICIPATION LITERACYPART 1: CONSTRUCTING THE WEB 2.0 CONCEPT Peter GigerBlekinge Institute of TechnologyLicentiate Dissertation Series No. 2006:07School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning Participation LiteracyPart I: Constructing the Web 2.0 Concept Peter GigerBlekinge Institute of Technology Licentiate Dissertation Series No 2006:07 ISSN 1650-2140 ISBN 91-7295-088-9 Participation LiteracyPart I: Constructing the Web 2.0 Concept Peter Giger School of Techoculture, Humanities and Planning Blekinge Institute of Technology SWEDEN© 2006 Peter GigerSchool of Technoculture, Humanities and PlanningPublisher: Blekinge Institute of TechnologyPrinted by Kaserntryckeriet, Karlskrona, Sweden 2006ISBN 91-7295-088-9Table of ContentsAbstract 7Acknowledgements 8Prologue 11Part I – A Reading Guide 17 The Structure 17 Transdisciplinarity 18 Feminist Technoscience and The Cyborg Figure 20 Approach 20 Some Issues 21 Disclaimer 22Part II – Building the Concept Web 2.0 23 Starting a Position 23 Main Concepts 29 The Web as a Platform 29 Collective Intelligence 31 Folksonomy 34 Ajaxian Interfaces 37 Version 1 – for readers with no programming knowledge 37 Version 2 – for readers with some programming knowledge 37 Main Actors: Google and Yahoo 39 The Web 2.0 Document Model 41 Web 2.0 in Figures 44 Web 2.0 Off Shots 44 Identity 2.0 44 Dick Hart’s notion of Identity 2.0 46 Rosanne Stone and Multiple Personalities 47 The Identity Bank 47 The Urge for Anonymity 48 Intelligence 2.0 or Hybrid Intelligence 48 What about Law 2.0? 50 Library 2.0 51 Author 2.0 51 Research 2.0, Science 2.0? 52 Open Access 53 Open Peer Review 54 Collective Intelligence in research Environments 56 The Web as Platform 56 5 Web 2.0 Services 56 Ebay 57 Amazon.com Becomes a Tagging Community 59 Delicious and other Bookmark Managers 61 Bookmarking and Blogging with The Flock Web Browser 65 Last.fm and Pandora – or What is the Connection between Esjorn Svensson and Goldfrapp? 66 CoComment (Blog Comment Tracker) 68 Writely – Online Word Processor 69 Summary Discussion Web services 70 Part II – Wrapping it all up 71 Part III – Starting The Discussion about Participatory 75 Literacy 75 Getting under The Skin 76 How I became a Native Cyborg 78 But What is a Cyborg, Really? 79 Anatomy 80 Web 2.0 ßà Cyberspace 80 Participating Literacy 82 The sense of Irony and the Principle of Charity 82 Time Loss and the Document Concept 84 Plural Identities 85 Hybridity 86 Participation Literacy and an ideology 86 A few final words 87 Appendix I: Technologically Navigating Cyborgs 89 Image 1: Surfing in the Woods on a Mountain Bike 89 Image 2: Surfing the Waves of the Internet 90 The Cyborgization Process 90 Navigation 91 Flow: The Link between Exisitence and Navigation 91 Appendix II Cyborgistoria (in swedish) 93 Glossary 95 References 996 Abstracte licentiate thesis is a piece of academic work under the theme of /Participation Liter-acy/. The thesis concerns the Web 2.0 concept construction. Web 2.0 is a new mind-set on the Internet. The main characteristics include ”Web as a Platform”, CollectiveIntelligence, Folksonom ...