Comments on: Lessons from Information Revolution 1.0

By: EkramPrashanta

EkramPrashanta — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:23:25 +0000

i added this to my collge report

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By: Philipp Mueller

Philipp Mueller — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:03:53 +0000

@Florian: great point about read-write (social media) literacy! The question is how do we design massive social media literacy campaigns equivalent to the campaigns we had in the 19th century (think how long it took for people to realize that this was a public policy challenge).

My point, however, was slightly different: what people think matters at the time of the revolution, does not matter in hindsight (doctrinal debates), however, the politics does have macro-historical impact.

By: Florian Buhl

Florian Buhl — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:30:35 +0000

I think network society is not so much in need of outstanding protagonists but of a learning procees, during which people learn how to make use of the opportunities of the new media properly. The revolutionary element of Information Revolution 1.0 was not the invention of the letterpress alone but how the implications of this invention changed the information flow in society. Before the letterpress the diffusion of information was organized very hierarchically; those who were in power controlled which information and which opinion was the be spread and which not. However, with the invention of the letterpress a whole new mode of infoamtion flow was established: the free market prinicpally everybody could enter. But the development of the print culture had other implications as well: People had to learn how to write texts that can stand alone, that don't need anybody to interpret them for the reader. And people had to learn how to read texts that are not interpreted for them by anybody.
Experiencing Information Revolution 2.0 we have to consider which new skills we have to learn in order to handle a the whole new modes of communcation in network socitey – just like people had to during the development of the print culture.

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