A presentation I am giving to the postgraduate students taking the E-Business Strategy and Policy course. Spring Term. Birkbeck, University of London.

1. Creativity 2.0 I dentity & C ommunity N arratives and C reativity in the age of Internet re-mediation Presenting to EBSP Spring 2010 class Sofia Gkiousou – www.digital-era.org for Birkbeck, University of London

2. Cyberspace & Metaverse Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination William Gibson - Neuromancer Hiro is approaching the Street. It is the Broadway, the Champs Elysees of the Metaverse. It does not really exist. But right now, millions of people are walking up and down it. Neal Stephenson- Snow Crash

6. Online activities Source : Grunwald Associates LLC as quoted in NSBA, Creating & Connecting//Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking “ Students are hardly passive couch potatoes online. Beyond basic communications, many students engage in highly creative activities on social networking sites — and a sizeable proportion of them are adventurous nonconformists who set the pace for their peers.” NSBA, 2007

7. Participation & networks More people than ever can participate in culture, contributing their ideas, views, information. The web allows them not just to publish but to share and connect, to collaborate and when the conditions are right, to create , together , at scale. Charles Leadbeater, We Think Commons-based peer production Collaborative efforts (e.g. Wikipedia) Networked information economy "system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket means that do not depend on market strategies.” Yochai Benkler – The Wealth of Networks TRUST – REPUTATION - POWER

8. The conversation Brian Solis – The Conversation Prism

9. Dominant issues in the literature Identity construction Community cohesion and dynamics Collaboration Learning Creativity Privacy IP & copyright (Creative Commons and alternative approaches) Monetization

10. Places & Spaces MMORPGs Virtual Worlds

11. Remember Remediation?

12. OMG! They killed Kenny!

14. Identity & Community Constructing an identity The features of each service (primary – secondary) Does the community shape the identity? The performativity of the self (Goffman) Media Imagery (Debord) when users create, they discuss and share their creations learning from each other’s experience C. Ondrejka, Escaping the Gilded Cage

15. Creativity Highly customisable avatars – identity constructions Emotional involvement (wars, battles etc.) Social relationships Trade and promotion Machinima and mashups/ remixes Formation of groups via common creations (see Odrejka)

16. MMORPGs and SL

17. The process of socialisation Circulating and Sharing reflects social relationships Degrees of “publicness” Publicly Private behaviour (makers’ identities revealed) Privately Public behaviour (limiting access to makers’ identity) Patricia G. Lange Publicly Private and Privately Public

18. The three questions Identity & Community Narratives Learning & Creativity