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

[Teemu Leinonen]

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

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Teemu Leinonen
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+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
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University of Art and Design Helsinki
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