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It's an interesting moment, university students use facebook quite a lot for 'banter' and to exchange views about SOPA, 'anonymous' and many other aspects - within the environment they are concerned about. Wasn't there a thread a little while ago - the 'occupy' discussion- that explored this? If I contrast the 'co-ordinatingthrough ICT' in mass communication, with the communication in activist activity in the emergence of post-franco democracy in Spain ( where there was strict measure intended to control public gathering, and the numbers of people joining together in public, including the streets) - then there is not even the ghost of resemblance in today's limited capacity for collective 'activist' activity. More than the technology being 'intolerable' , there's the concept of social activity - highjacked into such social relation... in either/or conduits enforced in the application - it's not open-source, nor is it wiki-like - where the rationale for form can be accessed [ although this is increasingly specialist, and 'wiki-editing' tendenciies are under scrutiny too]. Same goes for any forms of discussion on 'Linked-in' :who does what with the content and what knowledge of networking is used for what etc. I've found that people tend to export useful threads into a pdf / a wiki orsome similar other form, but still tap into the connectivity that the applications enable ( for better /worse). Rather what is being achieved in these different forms is what single Institutional ( e.g university ICT provision etc) IT technical support doesn't underpin /maintain. XMCA being a notable exception.. Christine. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote: > Well, Christine, the author argues that what Facebook will do - is already > doing - is make life "intolerable"! > > Martin > > On Feb 5, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Christine Schweighart wrote: > > > Facebook has potential for opening to people who do not know about xmca > , > > just through the topic of the group -through curiosity. Perhaps this > > article might be interesting to read to think about what Facebook might > > 'do' that the listserve wouldn't? > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all > > Christine. > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca