First Monday'S Critical Perspectives On Web 2.0
Alex Reid,
Digital Digs,
Mar 06, 2008
Summary of the current issue of First Monday, which features a number of critical perspectives on Web 2.0. This observation by Trebor Stoltz is telling (and accurate): "The takeover of the Web by business interests is also apparent when examining public discourse. The most visible authors, writing about the Social Web are lawyers, legal scholars at elite universities, business strategists, and corporate social media consultants. The bibliographies and acknowledgments in their books are almost exclusively pointers to others in their closed elite circle. This is surprising, especially as the phenomena that they write about (and frequently glorify), include the democratization of expert culture."
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