Dec 04 - We the participants

Commercial ReMix

Original Apple Commerical Introducing the Macintosh computer in 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

"Anti-Hillary" commercial produced by the Obama campaign
Published March 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

Video by Astrubal critiquing the 20 year rule of Tunisian president Ben Ali
Published February 29th 2004.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsF8qQmLYo0

Links for final project inspiration:
http://geekcorps.org/
http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Dropping Knowledge
http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate
http://www.dodgeball.com/
http://twitter.com/
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/projects.htm
http://www.techkwondo.com/projects/

DUE: 4-5 page comparative essay

Compare and contrast your experience of writing an individual blog to that of co-authoring a wiki. Your essay should draw from class readings. Try to look critically at the output of both endeavors.

Some similarities and differences you might consider:

  • type of content generated
  • quality of the content
  • structure of the resulting document
  • freedom of expression
  • accountability
  • strengths and limitations of each
  • accessibility
  • interactivity, participation

Readings:

We Media. Chapter 4: The rules of participation by Dan Gillmor