Quotes
From ActiveArchives
Oral traditions do their work by adapting... giving flexibility ... a rule-governed kind of flexibility... Example of understanding history through the "story patterns" based on folk tales, and the use of story forms to make them "receivable"...
It would be helpful, in thinking about datedness, to think about media other than the media that prize fixity and unchangability above anything else and that use in fact rule-governed flexibility to negotiate on a cultural and individual basis, language wise, dialect wise, idiolect wise ... how reality is to be construed and constantly be re-construed.
John Miles Foley, Univ. of Missouri
in Video proceedings of Media in Transition 6: Archives and History
Importance of:
- Archive as a place for transaction, a platform...
- Continuing project of gathering and interpretation of material
Questioning "web 2.0"
Henry Jenkins writing in his blog, quotes from Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century:
A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
from the original blog entry:
Initially, the discourse of "web 2.0" was embraced as offering a progressive alternative to the alienation of the consumer from the means of cultural production and circulation and these companies have been understood as enabling a more diverse media culture. Yet, over the past few years, struggles between users and owners (still operative distinctions in most web 2.0 companies), such as debates around FanLib (the attempt to commodify an existing participatory culture), Live Journal (the attempt to censor user-generated content), Facebook (shifts in privacy standards and the terms of service), and YouTube (automatic take-downs which impinge on fair use), are starting to reveal some of the contradictions and conflicts masked by O'Reilly's "architecture of participation."
Ross Harley on YouTube and a need for a "read-write" web:
... isn’t it possible to create, not a unified giant that takes ownership and control, but a multi-way read-write web of connections, links, videos, writing, biographical data, images, comments, debate and other important documents?
It is clear from this brief description that we are not talking about replicating YouTube, with its restrictive user agreements and monolithic structure. Whatever the platform is for our new model, we need to link it, open it up, blow it apart — as that’s what is necessary to avoid the creation of yet another proprietary walled garden and individualised silo.
http://www.stereopresence.net/media/words/totally-busted-do-we-need-a-youtube-for-video-art
