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casseyt's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting conversation between boyd, Ito and Jenkins.
vanderwal's review
5.0
Books for me are often conversations as a means of informing. They are a bit one-sided, but for me they work in this manner. But, for me they can also trigger things I've heard before, or conversations I have been a part of, or remind me of things I have known and do know presented in a purer state (not interwoven with other truths or realities or placed tightly beside them).
Participatory Culture took me straight back to conversations and deep dives to the mid-2000s. Resurfacing those mindsets, conversations, and discoveries have been difficult. They were difficult to resurface in conversation not because they were wrong or out of date, but many people dealing with the same domain took more popular and easy paths to understanding, which only truly frame partial actual understandings. Participatory Culture gives the honest good solidly founded framings and perspectives.
Participatory Culture is like sitting down to the middle of my favorite conversations, as I have had conversations with two of the authors and covered some of this ground. But, the whole of the book resurfaces the authors past writings and discussions a fresh, but also weave them into a current light. The underlying foundations still stand solid five, ten, and fifteen years after having been fortunate to have been able to have some of these conversations live.
Participatory Culture took me straight back to conversations and deep dives to the mid-2000s. Resurfacing those mindsets, conversations, and discoveries have been difficult. They were difficult to resurface in conversation not because they were wrong or out of date, but many people dealing with the same domain took more popular and easy paths to understanding, which only truly frame partial actual understandings. Participatory Culture gives the honest good solidly founded framings and perspectives.
Participatory Culture is like sitting down to the middle of my favorite conversations, as I have had conversations with two of the authors and covered some of this ground. But, the whole of the book resurfaces the authors past writings and discussions a fresh, but also weave them into a current light. The underlying foundations still stand solid five, ten, and fifteen years after having been fortunate to have been able to have some of these conversations live.
dominik's review
4.0
Conversational and accessible, almost as if the reader were on a couch overhearing a trialogue between close friends who care deeply about both the Internet and about society, especially for those left behind by cultural or economic progression. Much food for thought here, particularly for those readers who have been steeped in the Internet growing up and for whom the structural biases inherent in the technology are almost invisible.
Or, to put it another way:
Imagine if the Internet felt like a foreign land to you.
What would that be like? How would that change how you use it... how you participate in online culture?
This book addresses that, because the Internet _does_ feel like a foreign country to many, many people, and, well, if it's truly meant to be the network for everyone, that shouldn't be the case.
Or, to put it another way:
Imagine if the Internet felt like a foreign land to you.
What would that be like? How would that change how you use it... how you participate in online culture?
This book addresses that, because the Internet _does_ feel like a foreign country to many, many people, and, well, if it's truly meant to be the network for everyone, that shouldn't be the case.
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