Socialist Software
Interesting post by Ulises Mejias in which he states that "Social Software can ... embody a set of social practices that are downright, well, socialist!". And this:
If —by whatever combination of strategies and happy historical accidents— Social Software manages to change the way we produce things (artifacts, knowledge), will these changes in the means of production result in more egalitarian societies? In other words, will Social Software prove Marx was right about the link between democracy and technology?Ulises' post links to this article too:
http://dogma.free.fr/txt/AF_democratic-rationalization.htm.
In most of the reading I have been doing, there is little mention about the socio-politics of the situation in which adult learning occurs. Collaboration is talked about idealistically as if we all live in the egalitarian environs of Pleasantville. Whilst I'm hardly a Marxist, I think we are naïve in not considering the political context that will support the success of so-called Web 2.0.
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