2. The World is Talking!
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Usergenerated content
growing every day
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Blogs, vlogs, photos,
tweets, streams, ...
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Different nationalities,
religions, languages, 70 million weblogs tracked
political beliefs, Over 120k blogs created every day
historical narratives...
4. News from narratives
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Global Voices
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Founded at Harvard University's Berkman Center
for Internet and Society (2005)
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Over 100 members: authors, editors, translators, ...
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Advocacy, Rising Voices, Voices without Votes
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Project Lingua: translation into 15 languages
5. Remixing conversations
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Content is not enough on its own:
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Without context, it is not relevant
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Without translation, it is not understandable
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Without a coherent narrative, it is not meaningful
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To convey conversations, need to remix them
6. Openness and Remixing
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Open licensing is essential to remixing:
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Quoting USG: acceptable since GV does not have
a policy of copyrighting content
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Images/video: nearly every image/video on GV is
licensed as Creative Commons
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Republication: GV subproject sites, but also major
media sites (Reuters, etc.)
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Translation: on Lingua, also through other sites
7. Open Content and Community
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Open content underpins the GV community:
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Large, global, and open community collaborates on
almost every instance of content creation
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Shared sense of ownership and pride
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This enables contributors to create their own
projects (Lingua, Advocacy, etc.)
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Open publication naturally leads to
communitybuilding
8. Limitations of Open Publishing
1.Limited uptake of open content licensing in
many countries (e.g. Japan)
2.Imbalance between individual/organization:
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Bloggers generally do not worry about how content
is licensed, just copypaste
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Organizations like GV must be much more careful
3.Boundary of “open” definition is not clear
