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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

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Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Be personal.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

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This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

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This is the last week of the Groundswell book discussion, in which we've been looking at five strategies (listening, talking, energizing, helping, and embracing) for business use of social technologies, as defined by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Tags: evaluation Book Discussion: Groundswell participatory museum usercontent.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

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There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. The choice of what to display on the front page is not just about design. Each Web 2.0

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

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While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. On YouTube, you can share videos.