Wann und wo und in welchem Zusammenhang ist Online-Zusammenarbeit fruchtbar?
Wäre es vielleicht an der Zeit - jenseits von Euphorie und Technikfetischismus, aber auch jenseits von Pauschalurteilen (wie "Tools sind Scheiße!") - dieser Frage noch einmal neu zu diskutieren? Hier eine spannende Mail von Trebor Scholz zum Thema Wikis: > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Trebor Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gesendet: 28.04.06 18:55:33 > An: IDC list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: [iDC] "All our wiki are belong to you" > (Perhaps we can move beyond the survival and remix culture debate. > The discussion about malleability of culture and hybridity is one vista > point of the current new media landscape. 147 million American adults > responded to a poll by the Pew Internet & American Life Project > identifying themselves as Internet users. Today, the Internet is a place > where you can go bowling together. People engage each other on a massive > scale. Apart from the commons as site of peer production there is also a > novel distributed aesthetics that emerges. Many netizens upload content. > This, I¹d argue, is a participatory turn in culture that is noteworthy.) > > What constitutes the art of engagement with regard to quotidian uses of > open access environments like wikis and blogs? > > Wikis are widely used in university settings today. Conference wikis > allow presenters and attendees to add and edit content before and after > the event. Wikis allow geographically separated collaborators to collect > ideas and work together on documents. There also other useful tools such > as SubEthaEdit for this purpose. > > Wikis can serve as a personal notebook and are useful for student > journaling in order to develop a writing proficiency. Such writing > exposes degrees of understanding of knowledge and can establish the > habit of regular reflection. Peers and instructors can jointly review > the writing. > > Wikis are contributions to the Access To Knowledge (A2K) movement: they > contribute knowledge to the commons. Commitment to scholarly work, John > Willinsky writes, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that > work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. ³Wide > circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of > its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known > are inextricably mixed.² > > Class room reports about the hands-on experiences on the ground, > however, are missing. In the course ³Death, Data, & Desire² we used a > MediaWiki this semester. > > <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> > > It is common wisdom that without a degree of closedness wikis get > quickly spammed. We kept our course wiki closed during the semester to > have a safe environment for experimentation and the development of > ideas. But in the end it was important to open it. The potential of > wikis goes far beyond single author editing. Do you know of exemplary > course wikis that are 1) cooperatively assembled and 2) really push the > properties of the medium? How does the wiki structure work on our > thoughts? Where are exemplary wikis that put that format to full > collective use in the described context? > > The meaningful orchestration of group uses of wikis does not have many > references yet. The potential is the integration of several successive > courses in one wiki in which students can build on each other¹s findings > and connect to one another. They can create reflective linkages among > their works and texts. > > When developing and maintaining collaborative student knowledge > repositories, structure matters. Wikis are easy to edit collaboratively > but can create monumental mess when used by a group. A sea of links and > submenus will suffocate even the last bit of content. We found that the > creation of templates became an important step in the use of the course > wiki. Without the uniform use of templates, information would get > flushed down the sink of the database. Apart from templates, the > structure of each page turned out to be clearer if most information was > kept on one page, using MediaWiki automated indexing feature. > > <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/Al> > <http://wiki.critical-netcultures.net/wiki/index.php/ > Socially_Networked_Video> > > Several commercial incarnations of wikis understand this issue well: > many wiki farms offer a clear templated structure. Clients can set up a > free wiki that is not password protected in any way, which makes them > useless for any serious, long-term use. Like with open source software > you pay for the bottle while the water is free. The convenience of > prefabricated templates gets people through the door. > > Weblogs, in comparison, are useful teaching tools but we found that they > are inferior to wikis in many respects. An advantage of blogs is that > commenting on each other¹s work is straightforward. It is easy to see > who comments on whose work. Assignments here included a compulsory > length of post, number of external links per post, and comments. > However, content gets swallowed by the blog hinterland and despite tag > clouds and monthly archives, blog interfaces do not offer comprehensive > and clear access to the content contained in a blog¹s database. > > Contrary to the famous net phenomenon we say: ³All our wiki are belong > to you.² > > Trebor > > > References: > > All your base are belong to us > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us> > > A2K Wiki > <http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> > > PbWiki: the world¹s biggest commercial wiki farm > <http://pbwiki.com/about/> > > Subethaedit-- collaborative work forum > <http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/> > > Seed Wiki > <http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/seed_wiki/seed_wiki.cfm> > > A comparison of wiki platforms > <http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2005/10/30/free-hosted-wikis-comparison-of- > wiki-farms/> > > Download page MediaWiki: > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download> > > OpenMute > <http://3d.openmute.org/modules/wakka/OmOneGettingStarted> > > Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle. The Case for Open Access to > Research and Scholarship. Cambridge: MIT. > > Benkler, Y. (2006) The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production > Transforms Markets and Freedom. Cambridge: MIT. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity > (distributedcreativity.org) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/idc > > List Archive: > http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/ _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192
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