[p2p-research] Wikiworld

[Tere Vadén]

Samuel Rose wrote:
> Congratulations Tere and co.!
> 
> Thanks for the pdf.
> 
> Being here, deep among the unmoved movers, I'll see what insights I can 
> gain from your work as we try to introduce collaboration and "commons" 
> based approaches to people who struggle to regain cultural knowledge 
> they lost generations ago.
> 
> One project in particular that holds promise is 
> http://socialsynergyweb.org/oardc/main-group where we are helping people 
> learn to use participatory media to build competing infrastructure based 
> around local foods, local agriculture. The only way for them to do it is 
> to collaborate as stakeholders, and participants in the chain from 
> producer to user/consumer. Just a little bit of participatory media has 
> helped, by way of opening up channels of communication. We've barely 
> used it to it's potential.

This sounds great. Also here various co-ops & local economies were a big 
part of the landscape before WWII; then in the 80's and 90's everybody 
went crazy with the market boom and finally even the co-op banks and 
local stores collapsed. Now we have to learn those things again, too.

> 
> In this geographic region, a lot of people don't see what they are doing 
> as "socialism", but rather as mutual, voluntary cooperation, and 
> collaboration.

Yeah, and ideologies suck, anyway. The thing that first got me 
interested in Free Software and stuff was precisely that Stallman & co 
didn't just complain when they saw what was happening (altough they did 
that too, and engaged in "resistance"), but rather started writing a 
free operating system from scratch. It took 20 years, but they did it.

I guess a part of the reason why Juha & I want to use the term 
"socialism" (apart from trying to be provocative) has to do with "owning 
up" to what one is doing & being aware of a tradition. Just the other 
day Juha found in one of Eben Moglen's essays a sentence that is 
directly lifted out of the Communist Manifesto, with no indication or 
reference of that, of course. While I understand that Moglen, Stallman 
etc. don't want to be pigeon-holed in a negative way, the situation for 
us is quite different, and avoiding the "s" word would feel awkward.

> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Tere Vadén <tere.vaden at uta.fi 
> <mailto:tere.vaden at uta.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear peers & peeresses,
> 
>     We have finally published the open access book entitled "Wikiworld -
>     Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media" that has
>     already been mentioned on the list earlier. We hope that you find it of
>     interest in your work. Please feel free to download (pdf) and link the
>     book from http://wikiworld.wordpress.com
> 
>     WIKIWORLD
>     Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media
> 
>     In the digital world of learning there is a progressive transformation
>     from the institutionalized and individualized forms of learning to open
>     learning and collaboration. The book provides a critical view on the use
>     of new technologies and learning practices in furthering socially just
>     futures, while at the same time paying critical attention to the
>     constants, or "unmoved movers" of the information society development;
>     the West and Capitalism. The essential issue in the Wikiworld is one of
>     freedom – levels and kinds of freedom. Our message is clear: we write
>     for the radical openness of education for all.
> 
>     Yours,
> 
>     Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén
> 
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