Re: [Wikiversity-l] New book: Wikiworld - Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media

Hi all, Some of you may find this new book interesting: "Wikiworld - Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media" From the book: "A case in point in the collaborative turn is Wikipedia and its sister projects like Wikiversity, which in our estimate will soon confront nationally governed educational systems. Researchers, educators, teachers and other cultural workers are tired of waiting to get on board the Wikiworld through their institutions, and are building their blogs and wikis and forming alliances globally with their peers and like-minded people. They are part of informal networks and "invisible colleges." I already read the first chapter and scanned the rest of the book and it looks for me another - but pretty well grounded - attempt to locate the Wikimedia phenomena to wider historical and social context. The book is here: http://wikiworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/6/ The authors are scholars from the University of Tampere in Finland: philosopher and professor of adult education. I am trying to get them to come over to the Wikimania 2008. - Teemu ----------------------------------------------- Teemu Leinonen http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/ +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi University of Art and Design Helsinki ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list Wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l