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Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
April 27, 2007
Mizuko Ito research scientist, USC Annenberg Center for Communication [homepage]
Cory Ondrejka chief technology officer, Linden Lab
Trebor Scholz professor, media studies, SUNY Buffalo
Thomas W. Malone moderator

An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses how buzz phrases like "collective intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central in recent discussions of networked culture, and what they actually mean.

What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that are emerging as people work together across geographic distances online? Are we working, learning, socializing, creating, consuming, and playing in new ways as a result of the emergence of our participation in online communities? What have we learned over the past decade that may help us to design more powerful communities in the real world? What lessons can we carry from our "Second Lives" into our first?

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Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He argues that technology is actually a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.
Net Delusion: Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov
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Amid the euphoria about the power of the Internet and social media, Morozov sounds a note of caution. He reminds us that these tools can also entrench dictators, threaten dissidents, and make it harder—not easier—to promote democracy.
Sherry Turkle: Expecting More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle
00:52:57
MIT professor of technology and society Sherry Turkle discusses the effect our technology has on our social relationships and her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
Amy McCoy: Poor Girl Gourmet
Amy McCoy
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Learn a lesson in eating well, but frugally, from blogger and now cookbook writer Amy McCoy.
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
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Technology commentator Nicholas Carr explores the psychological impact of the Internet and his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Lewis Hyde
01:08:00
Lewis Hyde of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society defends the concept of the "cultural commons." How has our cultural heritage, the store of ideas, art, and inventions we have inherited from the past, come to be seen as "intellectual property?" Have we taken the concept of "ownership" too
Image of Second Life: The Official Guide
Author: Jim Rossignol, Celebrity Trollop, Aleks Krotoski, Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham, Paul Cézanne, Jeannette Cézanne, Sara Van Gorden, Richard Platel, Cory Ondrejka, Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au
Publisher: Sybex (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

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