Next up at "The public, the media and politics: intellectual debate and science in the age of digital communication" was a talk about collaborative works of text. The start was no surprise: Wikipedia. Daniela Pscheider used the example of Wikipedia to elaborate on her five theses:
What was surprising,though, was that the 90-9-1 rule was not mentioned when the general lack of participation in collaborative writing was discussed.
I don't know what she was trying to say with thesis 5 and her explanations also didn't help clarifying it.
- The digital opus is free from materiality. It is endless in space and characterized by a pluralistic logic.
- The digital opus exists only in the moment and for the moment. It is unstable in time and episodic in nature. The digital opus is not a product, it is the process.
- The relation between author and digital opus is ambiguous. The digital opus lost its author as authorship diffuses among the collaborating contributors.
- The digital opus ceases to show a communicative direction. The triade of author-opus-reader is breaking up structurally.
- The digital opus lacks authority. It has problems competing with classic (printed) works.
What was surprising,though, was that the 90-9-1 rule was not mentioned when the general lack of participation in collaborative writing was discussed.
I don't know what she was trying to say with thesis 5 and her explanations also didn't help clarifying it.
Posted on Tuesday 15 February 2011 - 10:22:44 comment: 0
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