NMC Announces Howard Rheingold's Symposium Presentation in a New Model for Online Publication
The December 3-5 2007 NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication was designed to consider the way technology is not only changing the modes of communication, but even the whole notion of how we communicate and think about it. And in our continued effort to explore new means of hosting online conferences, this event took place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life.
We were very excited to offer a keynote presentation by Howard Rheingold on Co-Evolution of Technology, Media and Collective Action where he surveyed the big picture/long view of the way technologies, communication media, and collective action has co-evolved.
With a video recording of this presentation, we put the text of Howard's remarks into a new online publishing platform, CommentPress, a project developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book. CommentPress is essentially a template for the blog software WordPress, with the unique feature of tools that allow readers to provide comments at the paragraph level of a text.
So at this web site, you can watch the video of the presentation, and then engage with it by posting your comments to Howard's ideas. An additional section includes the questions surfaced by the audience at the presentation.
We invite you to explore this new resource, and hopefully participate in the communication- visit:
