Wikipedia and new media literacies – a perfect test case is already underway

Henry Jenkins ELI Keynote address is podcasted here. Jenkins opened with the sensible observation that contrary to media reports, Middlebury College’s much ballyhooed “banning” of Wikipedia was in fact a reasonable first step toward generating a dialogue, and an opportunity to open up the research process, one that can be conducted grounded in reason, not […]

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This barely qualifies as a post…

…but a couple of thoughts prompted by reading this post from Gardner Campbell: I think there’s a strong streak of Aristotelian propositional method in the idea of a data-driven web. Read the Poetics and wonder at Aristotle’s indefatigable defining, analyzing, parsing, specifying. The man never tires, never even hesitates in the face of the enormous […]

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