Week 1- Popular debate
Stevenson:
Author Michael Stevenson
From Hypertext to Hype and Back Again: Exploring the Roots of Social
Title
Media in Early Web Cultur
Web 2.0: participatory
Information universe
Virtual community
Concepts and WELL
terms Gift economy
Blogging
Open source
Informed media
Web 2.0 is more an evolution than a radical change, result of previously
existing ideas, participation always part of web culture. Steps in the
development of the web. The inventor (Lee) saw it as a ‘information
universe’, gave universal access to a large set of documents. Creation of
virtual communities, first one: WELL.critique on virtual: strong
Main ideas
connections in the ‘physical’ world. Cyberlibertarianism: belief that the
internet would be a medium of individual and economic freedom. The
perception that a free internet had to be independent from governments
was pushed forward by many media outlets (wired). Web 2.0 as
business concept after the the 2001 internet bubble burst.
Stevenson:
Author Michael Stevenson
From Hypertext to Hype and Back Again: Exploring the Roots of Social
Title
Media in Early Web Cultur
Web 2.0: participatory
Information universe
Virtual community
Concepts and WELL
terms Gift economy
Blogging
Open source
Informed media
Web 2.0 is more an evolution than a radical change, result of previously
existing ideas, participation always part of web culture. Steps in the
development of the web. The inventor (Lee) saw it as a ‘information
universe’, gave universal access to a large set of documents. Creation of
virtual communities, first one: WELL.critique on virtual: strong
Main ideas
connections in the ‘physical’ world. Cyberlibertarianism: belief that the
internet would be a medium of individual and economic freedom. The
perception that a free internet had to be independent from governments
was pushed forward by many media outlets (wired). Web 2.0 as
business concept after the the 2001 internet bubble burst.
