<CPOV> Ilmpedia

[Juliana Brunello]

> About fragmentation of society due to extreme tech-enabled
> personalization, I suggest you to read "Republic.com" by Cass Sunstein
> http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7014.html
> Will we arrive to Mepedia.org (A wikipedia containing just MY personal
> views, my own no-need-to-be-negotiated truth)?
>
> P.

Wow, this book sounds really good,thx for the link! will order it.

This is what I was talking  about (though maybe not so clear... sorry
about that). I took the Ilmpedia as an example because it is something
coming up now, but conservapedia or metapedia are examples of it too
(however I believe they are very extreme and Ilmpedia has not shown its
face yet). We could also cite Hudong, a chinese 'wikipedia'. The point is,
fragmentation (what I called separatism before, maybe a bad choice of
words) suppresses dialog among people with different concepts. It does not
serve diversity in a good sense. There will be diversity on the web, but
if this diversity does not interact, then it is an issue of concern.

Juliana

> Well, I know everyone here knows about
> http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Main_Page
> http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
> Wikipedia with precise starting POVs...
>
> About fragmentation of society due to extreme tech-enabled
> personalization, I suggest you to read "Republic.com" by Cass Sunstein
> http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7014.html
> Will we arrive to Mepedia.org (A wikipedia containing just MY personal
> views, my own no-need-to-be-negotiated truth)?
>
> P.
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Juliana Brunello
> <juliana at networkcultures.org> wrote:
>> Hi Maja,
>>
>> I don't believe we can speak of 'christianization of the web', but from
>> a
>> 'westernization'. Basically, the internet was born in the west and it
>> was
>> only natural for it to represent western views. I do praise diversity,
>> but
>> that was not my point. The question is, if separating povs - a chinese
>> encyclopedia, a muslim, a 'western' - that do not communicate with one
>> another. Will the definitions of reality of each nation be strengthen
>> and
>> cooperation and understanding among them be weakened?
>>
>> Juliana
>>
>>> Hi Juliana,
>>>
>>> We can also speak of the 'christianization on the web' - but that
>>> trend does not seem to attract the same media coverage.
>>>
>>> About 'separatism': If 'western' is perceived as representative of the
>>> world, then, I guess you can call the move away 'separatism'.
>>>
>>> I find it sometimes more productive to look for the differences
>>> (diversity) within a system or category and the similarities across
>>> systems or categories.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Maja
>>>
>>> On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Juliana Brunello wrote:
>>>
>>>> Islamicfacebook.com, NaqaTube, imhalal.com and now Ilmpedia. These
>>>> are all
>>>> Muslim sites based on well known 'western' social sites. Ilmpedia
>>>> will be
>>>> an encyclopedia based mostly on Islamic sources. The article linked
>>>> below
>>>> states that "websites like these are part of a growing trend of
>>>> Islamisation on the web". I ask myself, what the consequences of this
>>>> separatism from the 'western' websites are going to be. Will we have
>>>> more
>>>> information sources with different povs, so that we will be able to
>>>> form
>>>> our own opinions in a more balanced way; or will we have the
>>>> opposite, one
>>>> stream fighting the other and strengthening biased povs even more? I
>>>> wish
>>>> for the first, but I am not all too positive about it.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=244958
>>>>
>>>> Juliana
>>>>
>>>>
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