2007-05-25

Are you a network junkie?

New web-based technologies have increased the amount of information on international cultural exchange in the public domain. Many of the long established cross-European networks have moved quickly to extend their online presence in the interest of spreading contacts and opportunities as widely as possible. But this has had the side-effect of throwing a considerable amount of information into the public domain in an unregulated fashion under the name of 'knowledge' when it is really only 'data'.

We are now 'data rich and information poor'. Many multinational corporate bodies, who invested heavily in 'knowledge management' in the 1990s and early 2000s, have also realised that more information does not necessarily mean more knowledge. Many companies are encouraging their employees to open wikis, to use social-professional networking tools and sites like MySpace as a way of structuring networking and collaboration. Does LabforCulture offer the cultural sector the same opportunity?

Details: http://www.labforculture.org/en/floating_pages/pages/labforculture_newsletter_archive/working_the_net

An article by Adam Jeanes, in: LabforCulture