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Stephen Downes

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What's the difference between an ideology and a meme? From where I sit (and perhaps a little overgeneralized) the former is a product of, and inducement toward, group behaviour, while the latter exemplifies network behaviour. I personally think that ideologies - like morality - are best expressed by individuals, not by groups. If edupunk has an ideology, it should be emergent - not shared by some members of some group, but created through the interactions of a loosely defined cluster of individuals. That's why trying to pin down edupunk in a wikipedia article is probably a bad idea.

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