very interesting discussion indeed. what about announcements of conferences where the participants pay a fee? It is so different from crowdsourcing to make an event happen? Are they moderated on this list? ciao lorenzo
On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:45 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > >> Crowd-sourcing is a form of advertising based on an appeal to social >> pseudo-solidarity. Unlike other speech acts on this list, it has carries a > > Bingo, Keith! I think this hits on imho the most repugnant & disturbing > aspect -- the under-lying intense ego-centricity of social media hyping in > general. Gathering cash via 'the network' is the same as gathering 'friends' > and being 'liked' ... <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
