Shirky Chapter 1
- The policing episode: What is Shirky trying to lead us to?
- Spends a lot of time talking about how technology is leveraging an innate human capacity to share and cooperate, collaborate
- In some ways our modern society is interfering with our innate capacity to share by the sheer scale of modernity: wide span of expanding technologies since the printing press, the modes of sharing are continuously increasing
- People naturally incline to sharing
- Are we naturally cooperative
- What are some of the features of modern times that make it difficult for people to share cooperate and collaborate
- To organize without organization; answer to the problems with modernity
- Managing organizations
- Be suspicious of supervisor levels of organizations
- Look for the democratic/lack thereof nature of an organization
- As modernity and organizations got larger and expanded, modern values made it possible for larger organizations to exist
- What does an organization without management look like?
- Non-regulated
- Egalitarian vs hierarchy
- Scale
- Chapter 2: Community and Active Collaboration
- How does contemporary networked technology allow people to interact at scale
- As groups get larger, how do things get done, how is discussion achieved without relying on the classically modern methods
- Post-modern: organizations that are founded on strategies that don't belong
- Classic Examples of Modern Organizations:
- Catholic Church
- Apple (buerocratic)
- Modern Army
- training
- obedience; responsive to central authority
- Hierarchy: layers of authority
- Command and Control
- Centralization of Authority
- Standardization
- Indoctrinated to share values
- What would a post-modern organization look like?
- Rid of managers
- Post-manegerial; organization does not need to be managed
- Radically democratic (Occupy Wallstreet)
- No organization
- People acting democratically
- Modern Organizations cannot be mobilized to do post-modern work
- Popular organization of knowledge
- What has mass amateurization done to journalsim
- Use of Flickr and other social media by ordinary persons as a form of journalism that is far better in many ways than professional journalistic coverage could ever be
- Folksonomy can do things that organized taxonomy could never do
- Human needs that no amount of professionalization could answer (page 35)
- Sympathetic Response
- Enabled more than professional journalism
- In the aftermath of mass amateurization, what is left for professional journalism
- Features of journalism that represent modern organizational strategy (Fake objectivity) might have to be abandoned; journalists of future must embrace past, more argumentative and analytical approach to their job
- Shirky has sketicism of privitazation strategy of the "commons" from page 15
- Humans naturally share and modernity has gotten in the way
- Shirky's points reveal anarchist nature
- Network Technology reduces need/power for regulations
- More democratic regulation with networking technology
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