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against hierarchies of participation

I’m introducing students to different models of devised performance – and, in passing, described Clay Shirky’s hierarchy of participation: starting with sharing, and moving in increasing complexity through co-operation and collaboration to collective action.
Since that lecture, I’ve been thinking about the value of recognising the link beween these different kinds of participation – that co-operation, [...]

Posted 08 February 2010 § research § teaching ‡ Comments Off °

How to cope when everything is interesting

Much of my research is done online, where developing some kind of strategy for managing my time has been essential in preventing me from losing days to endless surfing.1 I’ve also felt far less guilty when I stopped assuming that everything that I read or spent time on should feed back into my current projects. [...]

Posted 15 June 2009 § research ‡ Comments (1) °