Wikinomics
A book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, first published in December 2006. It discusses how companies use open source software, and mass collaberation (Many people working on lots of individual things for one big project)
Web 2.0
A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators, eg Wikipedia, where users can edit the site to correct/edit the information. Whereas sites like the BBC restrict the user to only viewing the content.
Participating Culture
(Our own interpretation as we could not find anything) A collective identity that comes together to solve a problem or produce a work, like wikipedia. A person or group of people who are not only consumers but are also producers of their own work. Flickr for example allows people to show of their own pictures in their own virtual gallery, using the already laid out design for the site, and filling it with their own work.
Peering
Two networks exchange traffic between each other's customers freely, and for mutual benefit.
Digital Natives
Someone who was born in the digital age of technology, and the ones who have used it from an early age. For example an elderly person, like my grandad, has no idea how to use a pc.
Democratisation
Is the action of making something democratic or an action taken by a group of people.
We-Think
A book by the author Charles Leadbeater who explored the pheominon of mass creativity in the form of websites like youtube wikipedia and MySpace. The book argues that the participation rather than the consumption or the product will be the organising idea of the future of society.
Interactivity
Is a media device that can be engaged with or controlled by the user, for example dvds digital tvs, video games etc.
Long Tail
Is the distribution of unusual goods through a reduced market and distribtuion costs.
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