A short introduction to Participatory Economics.Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield on “Participatory Media”
We caught up with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield in Manhattan last week. He was in town to announce the winners in Flickr’s photo contest ‘The Blink of an Eye’.
Stewart and his wife and co-founder Caterina Fake sold the company to Yahoo! last year. The were featured on the cover of Newsweek not too long ago.
Far from living a celebrity high life, Stewart is deeply involved with the success of the photo sharing site, working days and some sleepless nights too.
He confides with Beet.TV’s Kate Lyon that he is so consumed with Flickr that he sometime he has trouble sleeping and keeps a notepad by his bedside to jot down notes on all sorts of issues like scalability, spam and copyright abuse. (aack!)
He told Kate that the key to success in participatory media (a term he prefers over consumer generated content) is the people, not the photos or medium. The photos are just the “locus” for people bringing people together. You can’t have one without the other, and when you put it that way, calling it participatory media does make a lot of sense.
See this video on Beet.TV:
http://www.beet.tv/2006/08/flickrs_cofound.html
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PV Sateesh Interview – participatory video pioneer
PV Sateesh Interview – participatory video pioneer . Visit his orgs site: www.ddsindia.com
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Introduction to Participatory Economics-Michael Albert
Michael Albert gives an introduction to an alternative economic structure to capitalism.
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Participatory Cultures
I spoke with Professor Henry Jenkins of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program. We talked about the concepts of participatory cultures and remix cultural forms, and how these concepts can be used to change education. For more information see:
http://cms.mit.edu/
Professor Jenkins’ blog can be accessed at:
http://www.henryjenkins.org/
Please note that this is a research site and that comments posted to the site may be used in research. For more information about the study and how posted comments are used in research please see:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AnthroVlog
Duration : 0:9:27
Participatory Cultures
I spoke with Professor Henry Jenkins of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program. We talked about the concepts of participatory cultures and remix cultural forms, and how these concepts can be used to change education. For more information see:
http://cms.mit.edu/
Professor Jenkins’ blog can be accessed at:
http://www.henryjenkins.org/
Please note that this is a research site and that comments posted to the site may be used in research. For more information about the study and how posted comments are used in research please see:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AnthroVlog
Duration : 0:9:27
Beyond Elections Documentary Part 2 (Participatory Budgeting I)
From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? WWW.BEYONDELECTIONS.COM
Duration : 0:8:38
YouTube Paneltalk – Participatory Media
YouTube Editor’s Choice – April, 2007
This video is panel discussion about participatory media. If you’re interested in this subject, you might want to read these books:
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, by Chris Anderson
See Chris Anderson talking about The Long Tail here on YouTube at
http://tinyurl.com/yotzw4
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, by Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor’s blog is at http://citmedia.org/blog
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, by Glenn Reynolds Blog at http://instapundit.com
I blog (or should I say blawwwwg) at http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com
Production Credits: This video was produced by John Benson, Maria Benson and Phil Shapiro. Graphic design and video editing by John Benson. Dramatic coaching and direction, Maria Benson.
Submitted to digg at http://tinyurl.com/2eqtl6
pshapiro@his.com
Note – a higher quality version of this video can be found on the Internet Archive as a QuickTime file. 8.3 megabytes in file size. Much clearer audio. See http://tinyurl.com/2g9ofa
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Participatory Sensing
The near future of participatory sensing on everyday mobile phones. http://cens.ucla.edu/
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