A presentation on connections between storytelling on the web and how artists are helping us see our selves interconnected in the web 2.0 era.

1. STORYTELLING IN THE
GLOBAL VILLAGE:
A glimpse into our Web 2.0 selves.

2. SECTION 1: What is Web
2.0?

3. What is Web 2.0?
(Michael Wesch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g.)

4. “We Are The Machine” 7
Mediascape: User-generated _____
7. Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” (accessed March 2, 2009).

5. Mediascape
USER-Generated Production:
 Content | Youtube, Blogs, etc.
 Filtering | Digg.com
 Organization | Del.icio.us, Flickr: Tagging
 Distribution | RSS, Facebook, Twitter, E-mail, etc.
 Commentary | Blogs
 Ranking | Technorati5
5. Michael Wesch, “An anthropological introduction to youtube,” (July
26, 2008), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU (accessed March 2, 2009).

6. SECTION 2: Web 2.0
Storytelling

7. Web 2.0 Storytelling | Examples
 Social Media Dramas: Lonelygirl15, Story2Oh
 Non-Fiction: Best of Craigslist, Blog, Vlog
 The Re[mix]
 Twitter Art = Twart

8. The Machine is Us | So what?
 [Artists] know that they are
engaged in making live models of
situations that have not yet
matured in the society at large. In
their artistic play, they discovered
what is actually happening, and
thus they appear to be „ahead of
their time.‟ Non-artists always look
at the present through the
spectacles of the preceding age.11
 EXAMPLE: Web 1.0: Form/Content
(http://www.benstack.com.au/images/f - Mezangelle
innegans_wake._ink_on_paper..jpg)
11. Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media,” Routledge Classics, 2005, 264.

9. Anti-Environments
 “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water,
since they have no anti-environment which would enable
them to perceive the element they live in. ... What fish
are able to see bears a close analogy to that
degree of awareness which all people have in
relation to any new environment created by a
new technology--just about zero. Yet despite a very
limited sensory life, the fish has an essence or built-in
potential which eliminates all problems from its universe. It
is always a fish and always manages to continue to be a
fish while it exists at all. Such is not, by any means, the
case with man10
10. Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, “War and Peace in the Global Village,” Ginko Press:
California, 1997, 175.

10. Teaching the Machine  We are the Machine
 “The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in
our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social
world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to
implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking
the mental models that are our standard equipment,
applying them to new subjects in selective analogies
and assembling them into new and more sophisticated
combinations.”11
Steven Pinker, “The Stuff of Thought,” 439.

11. SECTION 3: The Electric
Crowd

12. --Form | Content--
WEB 2.0 => Form & Content are separated
--We are all Contributors--
 Blogs--A blog is born every half-second1
 YouTube--9,232 hours of content uploaded per day2
 YouTube--88% of all content is New & Original3
 Wikipedia--Only 3.86 errors/report vs. 2.92 for
Britannica4
1. Michael Wesch, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” (March 8, 2007), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
(accessed March 2, 2009).
2. Michael Wesch, “An anthropological introduction to youtube,” (July 26, 2008),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU (accessed March 2, 2009).
3. Ibid.
4. Daniel Terdimann, “Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica,” CNET News (December 15, 2005),
http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html (accessed March 4,
2009).

13. Web 2.0 Storytelling| Implications
Important Facet of the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
 Web 2.0 is the platform of play to learn more
about our selves and our world
 In storytelling, Web 2.0 serves as the ultimate
“Looking Glass”

14. Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Traits
 Information Harvesters/Hunters : Building a core
conscience
 Perserving the Spell: An interplay of Mutual & Individual
Knowledge
 Echology: Everything affects everything
 Simultaneously knows everything and nothing
 Individuation of Community: One, Two, Many …

15. Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Traits
 Harvesters/Hunters of Information: Building a core
conscience Knowledge
 Perserving the Spell: An interplay of Mutual & Individual
Knowledge
 Echology: Everything affects everything
 Simultaneously knows everything and nothing
 Individuation of Community: One, Two, Many …

16. Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Implications
Important Facet of the Evolution of Electric Crowd
 Individuation of Community
 "Babies and infants have very, very limited
programmes. But they have room to learn more.”11
 The brain must develop to a certain point of
maturity before it can individuate objects by their
kind; babies learn words to communicate only after
this development11
11. Miwa Suzuki, “Japan child robot mimicks infant learning,” PhysOrg.com, (April
5, 2009), http://www.physorg.com/news158151870.html (April 17, 2009).
12. Steven Pinker, “The Stuff of Thought,” 137.

17. Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Implications
Important Facet of the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
 Grammar offers a clear refutation of the
empiricist doctrine that there is nothing in the
mind that was not first in the senses. Traces,
cases, X-bars, and the other paraphernalia of
syntax are colorless, odorless, and tasteless,
but they, or something like them, must be a part
of our unconscious mental life.11
11. Steven Pinker, “The Language Instinct,” BCA: London, 2000, 117.

18. The Wisdom of the Electric Crowd
 Diversity of opinion
 Each person should have private information even if it's just
an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.
 Independence
 People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of
those around them.
 Decentralization
 People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.
 Aggregation
 Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a
collective decision.8
8. James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds: …,” Wikipedia (March 5, 2009)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_Crowds (accessed April 15, 2009).

19. Web 2.0 Electric Crowd | Tetrad (beta)
ENHANCES (Figure) REVERSES (Ground)
Cumulative/Collective Intelligence Oral Culture
Speed of Communication Tactile Environments
Anonymous’ Face Value “We Are The Machine” 7
•Fusion of ARGs & Parks
Introspection •Interaction with/creation of AI
Echology: Everything affects
everything
Context Collapse
Multilinearity
Mutual Knowledge
User Participation
•Commentary, Distribution, Filtering, etc.
RETRIEVES (Figure) OBSOLESCES (Ground)
Voice of the individual in the crowd Individual knowledge
Individual
•Individual‟s Face Value
Individual’s Memory
User as Consumer
Linearity
Context