Mar
8
SXSW: Opening Remarks with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson
Original post by Katie Bauer on Outerspace/ Innerspace
4:03 pm | Categorized: ITP 2007 (i)
i read the book by steven johnson book,”everything bad is good for you,” after i saw him speak about two years ago. and the people at outside.in (henry jenkins) are doing some pretty cool stuff. here are some notes from their talk:
how do we build an infrastructure that enables collaborative engagement? wisdom of the crowd- collective vs individual intelligence (different models of expertise on this issue)
today’s school system currently does not facilitate the kind of environment for this generation. right now, people work inthe way of: everyone knows something about something and therefore the community as a whole knows everything but not every one person can know all of the information at a given time and the information they do know is accessible through the group as a whole on an ad hoc basis.
mapping stuff > mapping conversations through facebook
jenkins tells his kids: “keep an eye on the ratio of what you’re consuming to what you’re creating”
helping kids navigate in an online world. instead of watching over their shoulders, stand behind their backs.
virtual life vs real life, addiction to online gaming? Jenkins told a great story about a girl who lost her boyfriend to a MMORPG. (of course, i don’t know ANYTHING about what that’s like. haha) they had a date one night and he wasn’t ready and she walked into his room and it was dark and he was playing his game on the computer. she said, “honey i thought we had a date tonight.” he snapped back,”cant you see- i’m getting stronger!”
augmenting facebook encounters and managing the overwhelming complexities of human interaction