SAC 09 Ivan Sigal

1. ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL SCALE
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2. How we know what we know?
Who makes the news?
What do we decide to pay attention to?
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3. The potential of the Internet is many-to-many
communications, across communities, languages
and cultures.
We realized long ago that connectivity doesn’t
happen by itself.
Online and offline worlds are interdependent.
Story, and the telling of it are also about power.
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4. Small pieces loosely joined
- David Weinberger
Networked Societies
- many-to-many communications
- online geography and proximity
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6. We work to find the most compelling and important stories coming from
marginalized and misrepresented communities. We speak out against online
censorship and support new ways for people to gain access to the Internet.
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7. Overthrowing the Protest Paradigm - How Global
Voices, the New York Times and Twitter Covered the
Egyptian Revolution
Summer Harlow and Thomas Johnson from U. Texas
“Results showed that The Times adhered to the paradigm by emphasizing the
spectacle, quoting official sources, and de-valuing protesters as reporters
maintained an impartial role. In contrast, Global Voices and Kristof’s Twitter feed
took different approaches, legitimizing protesters and serving as commentators/
analysts, even actors, in the unfolding events. Global Voices also provided more
opportunities for reader interactivity.”
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19. Community - everyone is known, no one is counted
Society - everyone is counted, no one is known
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21. Mozilla
Wordpress
Wikipedia
Creative Commons
Open Knowledge Foundation
My Society
Code for All
Global Voices
Internet Archive
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22. Shift in technologies
- web browser to apps
- social networks to social media
- home pages to media streams
Shift in conversations
- text to image
- hyperlink to walled garden
- community to social scale
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24. Community to social scale
- Partnership/Syndication
- Organization/Hierarchy
- Chapter/Franchise
Technology layer
Social layer
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25. What is the change Global Voices is seeking?
What are the challenges of our work?
How can the Salzburg community be of help?
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