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The Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed
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discussions concerning information and
communication technologies and their policy
frameworks, network cultures and their
informational logic, new media forms and their
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Web 2.0: before, during and after the event
An issue of the Fibreculture Journal critically
exploring the ontogenesis of Web 2.0
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Issue Editors: Anna Munster (College of Fine
Arts, UNSW, Sydney) and Andrew Murphie (School
of English, Media and Performing Arts, UNSW, Sydney)
Refereed Articles
Dreams of a New Medium
Aden Evens
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_evens.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_evens.html
Beyond the 'Networked Public Sphere': Politics,
Participation and Technics in Web 2.0
Ben Roberts
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_roberts.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_roberts.html
Between Promise and Practice: Web 2.0,
Intercultural Dialogue and Digital Scholarship
Ien Ang and Nayantara Pothen
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_ang_pothen.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_ang_pothen.html
Mapping Commercial Web 2.0 Worlds: Towards a New Critical Ontogenesis
Ganaele Langlois, Fenwick McKelvey, Greg Elmer, and Kenneth Werbin
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_langlois_et_al.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_langlois_et_al.html
Contexts and Provocations
The Digital Given: 10 Web 2.0 Theses
Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter and Ippolita
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_ippolita_lovink_rossiter.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_ippolita_lovink_rossiter.html
Co-creation and the new industrial paradigm of peer production
Michel Bauwens
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_bauwens.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_bauwens.html
'Web 2.0' as a new context for artistic practices
Juan Martin Prada
<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_prada.html>http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_prada.html
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From the Editorial
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web 2.0 is a doing word.
Although Tim O'Reilly famously declared in 2005
that 'Web 2.0 is not a technology, it is an
attitude', in 2009 it's clear he's grammatically
incorrect (O'Reilly, 2005). Web 2.0 is not an
"is", or not only this. Web 2.0 is also a verb
or, as they taught us in primary school, it's a
doing word. Here's a list of some web 2.0 things
to do: apping, blogging, mapping, mashing,
geocaching, tagging, searching, shopping,
sharing, socialising and wikkiing. And the list
goes on. Yet as the list goes on it becomes
apparent that part of what web 2.0 does, while
doing all the things on this list and more, is
colonise everything in the network. It seems
that there is no part of networked thought,
activity or life that is not now web 2.0. To
draw up another kind of list, a list of 'things'
that have been done over by web 2.0, we find:
Gov 2.0, Identity 2.0, XHTML? 2.0, Classroom
2.0, and publish2 ...and the list goes on.
Anything can become or be 2.0 as long as it
demonstrates or is affiliated with a certain set
of qualities. A list of typical Qualities 2.0
might look something like this: dynamic,
participatory, engaged, interoperable,
user-centred, open, collectively intelligent and
so on. Clearly an 'attitude' can go a long way.
What, then, do we call something that sits
somewhere between doing, being and qualifying?
That systematises, indexes and categorises, on
the one hand, and yet, on the other, willfully
overruns categories and enthusiastically keeps
adding to its own lists of things, activities
and characteristics? That is poised between what
has just happened (web 1.0) and what will be
about to happen in a minute, soon, or later (web
3.0, the semantic web, next web)? That seems
ineffable, not quite there (attitude) yet is
also everywhere (lists, lists and more lists)?
In light of the strange space and odd temporal
dimension it inhabits, it seems appropriate to
call web 2.0 an 'event'. Something has certainly
happened to the web as we knew it circa 2001 and
that something is both a new technical
infrastructure for online ICTs ? what is now
referred to as 'an architecture of
participation' (O'Reilly, 2004) ? and a change
in attitude, a change in the ways we think about
doing, communicating and inhabiting networks.
The web 2.0 event moves the technical
infrastructure of networks even closer to the
transitive, to the nature of event itself.
Events are things that happen to things, aren't
they? Perhaps not, especially when we are
dealing with phenomena that are truly dynamic,
where change, hence unpredictability and
fuzziness, is their immanent modality. When we
start to flesh out what the event 'web 2.0'
comprises, it is not some thing (a technology,
an attitude) happening to some thing (web 1.0,
information-based networks) already existing.
Rather, with its dynamic apping of education for
example, web 2.0 as event also opens up the
question of the event itself: when and where is it?
In this issue of FCJ, Web 2.0: before, during
and after the event, we are as much interested
in opening up a space for thinking how networked
events might look, feel and impart themselves as
we are in adding to critical thinking about
particular web 2.0 phenomena. We want to put
forward a proposition that goes something like
this: web to the nth dimension could be a
contemporary and collective movement, an event
in research and thought creation, and web 2.0
might just be a version, one extended duration
within that larger movement. By this, we mean
that critical thinking, researching and writing
about networks has entered the space and time of
a phenomenal, explosive and singular event, web
to the 'n'. We want to think with/in this
milieu. Web 2.0 may only be part of that broader
movement in thought but it certainly presents an
opportunity, perhaps a vital and critical one,
to both grasp, and pause during, the event that
is networked thinking. Thinking right now about
web 2.0, thinking about it in critical and
inventive ways, as the essays published in this
issue do, is part of participating with this
broader event?and of thinking networked events
beyond the buzz of the immediacy of new apps,
social media or service platforms.
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Forthcoming Issues of FCJ: November, 2009?Remix; early 2010?Counterplay
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"Take me to the operator, I want to ask some questions" - Barbara Morgenstern
"A traveller, who has lost his way, should not
ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know
is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead
"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to
be cast back again into the open sea" (Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)
Andrew Murphie - Associate Professor
School of English, Media and Performing Arts,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052
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