{"id":304,"date":"2008-10-26T21:40:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-10-26T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T02:40:39","slug":"cyberfornia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/10\/26\/cyberfornia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberfornia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting together my syllabus for a course in California Politics and I want to avoid the bland, conventional approach to teaching what amounts to an upper division intro class.  I&#8217;m beginning to play with a theme of <em>Cyberfornia<\/em> that draws parallels between the development of California and the emergence of Web 2.0.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benkler.org\/\">Yochai Benkler<\/a> claims that the web&#8217;s revolutionary turn is that it turns the task of production into something that is <em>granular<\/em> and <em>modular <\/em> so that vast numbers of people can engage in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commons-based_peer_production\">peer production<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California, at least Southern California &#8212; my primary frame of reference, seems to have that same amount of modularity and granularity.  Los Angeles is often referred to as a network of neighborhoods without a center.  An entire <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_School\">Los Angeles school <\/a>of urban studies has been built around the city&#8217;s postmodern, de-centered, elements.  But I don&#8217;t think anyone has made the connection between California&#8217;s open-source, peer production driven nature (think of our initiative process) and Web 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>What do you all think of the relationship?  Am I off base?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting together my syllabus for a course in California Politics and I want to avoid the bland, conventional approach to teaching what amounts to an upper division intro class. I&#8217;m beginning to play with a theme of Cyberfornia that draws parallels between the development of California and the emergence of Web 2.0. Yochai Benkler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}