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The prosumer– The first time I heard it was in the video below. HT: Bob Carlton.
At ReIMAGINE we encourage our constituents to not just consume our events, ideas, and learning labs, but to actively participate and collaborate with us. Hopefully we are encouraging ownership by cultivating the collaboration and conversation. Is this a prosumer culture?
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Dion has a great post about some web 2.0 concepts that are popping up in other fields like law, media, and advertising among others. In the post, he states the following about some of the web 2.0 concepts:But that’s just the beginning. The interrelated, mutually reinforcing concepts in Web 2.0 like true disintermediation, customer self-service, […]
Andrew started a conversation on the parallels between the emerging church and web2.0. I think the similarities are interesting in that they are symptoms or manifestations of the environment they are coming from and how the web2.0 evolution might shed light on things to come for the church. Here is my attempt to articulate some fuddled, hazy thoughts on the subject.
It is fascinating to me that some of the things that have been happening in my discipline (computer science) also seem to be happening to the church. Andrew referenced this in his blog today. My first exposure to some of the background to what was happening (both in software and in the culture at large) first came from ESR’s book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Eric first wrote the book “online” before it was later printed and published. This is something that perhaps some of the emergent authors should explore– first putting their thoughts, ideas, and theology online before or while publishing it. This might nurture, for good or bad, some of the decentralized contribution that has benefited software in the opensource movement. Some of this is clearly happening now through blogs and other online media but it would be interesting to see what would happen if it was applied to more formal and typically more lengthy collections of thoughts such as books.
Perhaps those working/assisting/struggling with the emerging church (and the context) could learn something from what has happened with software and the opensource movement. A good place to start would be the The Cathedral and the Bazaar and some of the related writings and critiques that ESR has compiled on the same site. We might learn something about spiritual formation from the hacker culture too.
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