What Is Web 2.0

What is web 2.0pptx

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This is a slideshow i made talking about web 2.0 focusing mainly on what web 2.0 is and folksonomy. I structured this slideshow in a Pecha Kucha way which made my slideshow more economical and to the point.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation methodology which is used to organize the presentation order of an event, such as in a Pecha Kucha Night. Pecha Kucha Night events consist of around a dozen presentations, each presenter having 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds. Each presenter has just 6 minutes 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next presenter takes the stage. This usually takes place at venues through which young designers could meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network, the format keeps presentations concise, fast-paced and entertaining
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that take part in information sharing. The idea of Web 2.0 came about in a conference session in 2004 between O’Rielly and Media Live International. During this conference is where O’Rielly noted that the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites coming up with surprising regularity. It seemed as if the Dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web. However although Web 2.0 suggested a new version of the web it did not refer to an update to any technical specification but instead changes in the ways software developers used the web.
I found this topic very intresting as I learnt a lot about the introduction of the new web 2.0 and the benefits it had and the opinons that it got. In addition I made a powerpoint presentation in a way I have never done before which personallly made it a bit more enjoyable for me espeshially when practising at home trying to keep within the time frame so.

Remix Culture and Participatory Culture

I was at home the other day watching a movie with my girls and we decided to watch the movie Dance Flick which is basically a film about all different famous dance genre movies in one. When we were watching the film we saw how the movie had changed some of the scenes from the other movies to make it a bit funnier in other words remixed them.
Here is a youtube clip of one of the scenes from the movie Twighlight that has been re-acted and made fun out of in dance flick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9te22shDvs

After watching this, the reading that I had looked over a few days before came to mind as it was about remix culture. Remix culture is seen to be basically the creation of something new. The re-making of a song or something the way our culture evolves. Remix culture also talks about how culture is framed, not from the perspective of production but as something to which we should have a right to share and remix in the same way that there should be a right to freedom of speech. Remix culture also links in with copyright seeing as people have the freedom to take what they like from the internet and then change it around or also use it in their own pieces of work. That is a form of them remixing something by changing it from its original form into something else.
Participatory culture on the other hand is “a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression, strong support for creating and sharing ones creations. Participatory culture is also one where members their contributions give them some kind of connection with one another” (Jenkins et al, 2006) Within participatory culture the public produce and contribute to the culture as well as consume from it. This new culture has been described as web 2.0. The increasing access to the internet seems to be forming this participatory culture as more people are coming together to form more ideas and are working together as a whole.
From that lecture I learnt a lot about the way many things are remixed. It leads to me thinking about whether it was legal or not. Whiles thinking about that, I started thinking about all the different things that have been remixed and changed from their original formats which could have been made ages ago. This also then did get me thinking about what the future would be like especially when looking at the way things are at the way things are at the moment with remix culture.