InfoCompanions » Media Literacy http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Way-New Collaboration http://www.infocompanions.com/way-new-collaboration/ http://www.infocompanions.com/way-new-collaboration/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=77   talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

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About Howard Rheingold:
As Howard Rheingold himself puts it, “I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension, then plugged my computer into my telephone and got sucked into the net.” A writer and designer, he was among the first wave of creative thinkers who saw, in computers and then in the Internet, a way to form powerful new communities.

His 2002 book , which presaged Web 2.0 in predicting collaborative ventures like Wikipedia, was the outgrowth of decades spent studying and living life online. An early and active member of the Well (he wrote about it in The ), he went on to cofound HotWired and Electric Minds, two groundbreaking web communities, in the mid-1990s. Now active in , he teaches, writes and consults on social networking. His latest passion: teaching and workshopping participatory media literacy, to make sure we all know how to read and make the new media that we’re all creating together.

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