While tinkering around looking for info, I found a great website full academic goodies for the thesis: Gnovis. It describes itself as:
“an online academic journal and forum that cultivates new ways of seeing and understanding culture through critical inquiry. gnovis presents work by graduate students pioneering interdisciplinary perspectives on issues in technology, media, politics, and the arts.”
With academic articles like “Engagement 2.0? How the New Digital Media Can Invigorate Civic Engagement” by Lindsay Pettingill, “A Shift Realized: The Banking Crisis as the First Postmodern Event” by Andrew Hare or “Academics’ Views On and Uses of Wikipedia” by Firat Soylu it is easy to see the big appeal for the thesis.
Adding to this are some great blog posts. My personal recommendation for anyone interested in participating is the post named “Thesis Blog: Approaching Open Culture” by Brad Weikel, where he tries to deal with the definition of Open Culture and finds some familiar struggles I faced when researching for my own thesis. Truly a must read.
Weikel also tried to blog while he wrote his thesis in an attempt that reads very familiar to what this project is about. I will write to him soon and see if he can drop in to the project blog and drop his two cents, or maybe even more.
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Some of that stuff is hilarious, and relevant, though, probably unavoidably, some is pundit-ish. That said, compared with the utter trash that clutters the internet, it is treasure. Good find!