Comments on: Social media and the culture of connectivity http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/social-media-culture-connectivity/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: System Monitoring http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/social-media-culture-connectivity/#comment-366355 System Monitoring Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:34:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35783#comment-366355 These platforms, indeed, contributed immensely towards empowering users and ensure their connectivity. But, I believe that there still exists a fraction of control by these platform owners. -Tina These platforms, indeed, contributed immensely towards empowering users and ensure their connectivity. But, I believe that there still exists a fraction of control by these platform owners.
-Tina

]]> By: ZackAttack21 http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/social-media-culture-connectivity/#comment-362504 ZackAttack21 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:45:42 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35783#comment-362504 Users should indeed attain more power as this space was created by them. Improving legislation on the other hand in order to control this environment is a whole different thing. It needs to be done but not recklessly. Users should indeed attain more power as this space was created by them. Improving legislation on the other hand in order to control this environment is a whole different thing. It needs to be done but not recklessly.

]]> By: Peter M C Jones (@innov8tor3) http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/social-media-culture-connectivity/#comment-361928 Peter M C Jones (@innov8tor3) Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:39:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35783#comment-361928 Cutting to the chase, from someone who is out here connecting and contributing content as a micro-entrepreneur, my reply to this article is that we the global community are still just at the beginning of understanding how to use the mainstream tools described. As we begin to understand how to collaborate, how to form projects behind which there can be wider consensus, and how to deliver value such that we can monetise work streams so as to pay our bills and rear our children, there will be a tipping point. After this tipping point, corporates as we know it will change and become far more nebulous, far more organic, and the originality of content contribution and solution delivery from individuals will become an essential metric. This may take another ten years, unless the right kind of leader steps forward with the vision to seize the opportunity. I await developments with anticipation. Cutting to the chase, from someone who is out here connecting and contributing content as a micro-entrepreneur, my reply to this article is that we the global community are still just at the beginning of understanding how to use the mainstream tools described.

As we begin to understand how to collaborate, how to form projects behind which there can be wider consensus, and how to deliver value such that we can monetise work streams so as to pay our bills and rear our children, there will be a tipping point. After this tipping point, corporates as we know it will change and become far more nebulous, far more organic, and the originality of content contribution and solution delivery from individuals will become an essential metric.

This may take another ten years, unless the right kind of leader steps forward with the vision to seize the opportunity.

I await developments with anticipation.

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