Geert Lovink's Web Archive

This is the title of an upcoming lecture at Goldsmith’s University in London by Geert Lovink, author of a recent book by the same name. Lovink is critiquing notions of blogging as citizen journalism, and I thought that you might be interested in his analysis. The following quote outlines Lovink’s position, and may provide some food for thought.

The book contains eleven essays and an introduction that deals with Web 2.0 and Internet culture after its recovery of 9/11 and the dotcom crash.

This site is the home page for the no-frills online version of Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. This site is maintained by me, Sam Williams, author of Free as in Freedom.

To explore the culture of the internet, and digital culture more generally, and to gain a broad understanding of digital technology and its relationship with society and business communities.

Anyone who watches the busy, tremendously productive world of Internet open-source software for a while is bound to notice an interesting contradiction between what open-source hackers say they believe and the way they actually behave—between the official ideology of the open-source culture and its actual practice. Cultures are adaptive machines. The open-source culture is a response to an identifiable set of drives and pressures. As usual, the culture's adaptation to its circumstances manifests both as conscious ideology and as implicit, unconscious or semi-conscious knowledge. And, as is not uncommon, the unconscious adaptations are partly at odds with the conscious ideology. In this essay, I will dig around the roots of that contradiction, and use it to discover those drives and pressures. I will deduce some interesting things about the hacker culture and its customs. I will conclude by suggesting ways in which the culture's implicit knowledge can be leveraged better.

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