Charles Leadbeater continued

Glossary.

• Innovation: the action of process of creating/developing something new.
• Mass conversation: a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged.
• Creativity: the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.
• Utopian: modelled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic
• Culture: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
• Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
• Freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.
• Equality: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
• Capitalist: a person who uses their wealth to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism.
• 21st century

News stories.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328057/Amsterdam-riot-police-clear-squatters-breaches-human-rights.html
This article explains how different ideas/opinions has led to a riot, but the argument is said to breach humans rights. Leadbeater's theory grasps the concept of sharing ideas, freedom and equality which this article covers.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2487710/Twitter-shares-Is-worth-investing-buy.html
This article shows how the Internet is overthrowing democracy. Leadbeater's theory examines democracy and its dominance against the Internet which this article explores.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439485/Georgias-Sapelo-Island-community-slave-descendents-fight-tax-increase-threatens-homes.html
Leadbeater's theory also explores the idea of how opinions gather from one community, this article is an example of how one community is fighting back against the government.


Music distribution.


Carly Rae Jepson is an example of an artist who initially posted a music video on the Internet and went viral. However the link to the news article below explores how maybe distribution via the Internet is not such a great idea, which criticises Charles Leadbeater's idea.


http://perezhilton.com/2014-01-15-carly-rae-jepsen-cup-of-warmth-20-fans-charity


The Vamps is another example of a pop group who started their career via the Internet, however for them it has worked out well, their first single entered the UK charts at number two. They are now involved in a competition whereby the audience will vote who they want on MTV brand list 2014. Results will be shown in February.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/25141188


Criticisms.
Dystopian: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The opposite of utopia.


 Bradbury shows many of the ideals of a dystopian society. The three main ideals are:
1: Control of the media by government


2: The alteration of history for the governments benefit


3. Disposal of all those who refuse to accept the government's set of beliefs and follow them blindly


Example of dystopian theorist is...Graeme Turner

Beirut incident

The tweet from Lebanese politican wrote.... 

The retweets, favourites and comments spread the news of his opinion. The use of the trend would also attract further seeking of the story, as people could look at corresponding tweets from this. A trend has also been used to pay tribute to those hurt, '#prayforLebanon' '#Lebanonstrong' are the phrases used in a collage on the social networking site Instagram. 

Viral posts

The image below is an artistic visual still which was posted on the Internet. Since being published the photograph has gone viral with over 160,000 views. 

This shows the impact of the Internet in todays society and how quickly a simple post can be spread. 

Heather Mills posts video defending her disqualification

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/video-heather-mills-defends-wild-tantrum-at-disqualification-from-2014-winter-paralympics-9022165.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528269/They-Heather-Millss-amazing-six-minute-YouTube-rant-ski-row-left-disqualified-GB-Paralympics-team.html

Charles Leadbeater

Official website- http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

Notes of video of 'We Think' explaining his book.

- Internet has allowed the audience to have 'their say' through websites, blogs, wiki.

- 'Ideas take to life when they are shared'.

- New ideas 'usually comes from conversation'. 

- Creates a mass conversations, leading to mass innovation. 

- '20th Century = mass production for mass conversation'. 

- '21st Century = mass innovation' leading to more ideas than ever before. 

- First signs of this: Wikipedia, Linux, Oh My News, Slashbox.

- 'Mass innovation comes from communities. 

- 'Its like building a birds nest, where everyone leaves their piece'. 

- People want to socialise and get recognition for the work they do.

- Motto for this generation - WE THINK THEREFORE WE ARE.

- Good for democracy as more people have a voice.

- Equality because knowledge can be set free to help people who need it but cannot pay. 

- freedom because more people will know what it will be like to be creative. 

- UTOPIA view.

- 'in the past you were what you owned, now you are what you share'. 

Link to book; http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx

Information on website: 

• We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
• Ideas take life when they are shared. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.
• It's also at the heart of why the web should be good for : democracy, by giving more people a voice and the ability to organise themselves; freedom, by giving more people the opportunity to be creative and equality, by allowing knowledge to be set free.
• But sharing also brings with it dilemmas.
• It leaves us more open to abuse and invasions of privacy.
• Participation is not always a good thing: it can just create a cacophony.
• Collaboration is sustained and reliable only under conditions which allow for self organisation.
• Everywhere we turn there will be struggles between people who want to freely share - music, films, ideas, information - and those who want to control this activity, either corporations who want to make money or governments who fear debate and democracy. This conflict between the rising surge of mass collaboration and attempts to retain top down control will be one of the defining battles of our time, from Communist China, to Microsoft's battle with open source and the music industry's desperate rearguard action against the web.

Notes on Chapter One...

• Thanks to the web more people than ever can exercise their right to free speech, reviving democracy where it is tired and inspiring its emergence in authoritarian societies from Burma, to Vietnam and China.
• More people than ever have 
• basic tools which allow them a degree of creativity.
• Ideally the web should be spread the freedom to do express ourselves 
• creatively. Yet the web also expands the scope for surveillance, not just by the 
• state and corporations, but also by our peers and friends.
• On the one hand the web 
• is the source of our most ambitious hopes for spreading democracy, knowledge 
• and creativity.
• But the web is also the source of some of our most lurid fears: it has already 
• become a tool for stalkers, paedophiles, terrorists and criminals to organise 
• shadow networks for shadowy purposes beyond our control. 
• The 
• web enables small, dispersed groups to collaborate in ways that were previously 
• impossible.
• The more connected we are the more opportunities for collaboration 
• there should be, but the more vulnerable we also become. 
• The web’s critics argue that it will corrode much of what is valuable in our 
• culture, which rests on learning and expertise, professionalism and specialism.
• That web’s underlying culture of sharing, decentralisation and democracy, makes 
• the it an ideal platform for groups to self organise, combining their ideas and 
• know how, to create together.
• We Think’s organisational recipe rests of a balance of three ingredients between 
• participation, recognition and collaboration. 

Notes on Chapter Two...

• The web with its much lower costs allows a committed and knowledgeable enthusiast to connect to his fellow fans. Web 2.0 differs from earlier more static versions of the web, though, in that it encourages this community to have a conversation.
• The most obvious example is Google’s search system which works by treating a link from one website to another as a vote. 
• Social networking sites work when they foster a spirit of collaborative self governance.
• Wiki is Hawaiian for quick but it is also an acronym for “What I Know Is.”
• We Think revives the idea that sharing and mutuality can be as effective a base for productive activity as private ownership.
• Common platforms and peer to peer working allows innovation to emerge from a community.
• We Think culture is a hybrid of these odd ingredients: the geek, the academic, the 
• hippy and the peasant. 
• Media and culture used to be an industrial business 
• dependent upon large printing presses and expensive television studios, making 
• products for the mass audiences needed to sustain their costly operations. 
• The spread of the web means more people than ever can have their say, post their 
• comment, make a video, show a picture, write a song. 

Notes on Chapter Three...

• A successful creative community has to attract the right mix of people, who have 
• different ideas and outlooks and access to tools that enable them to contribute.
• People often think in d
• ifferent ways because they have very different values; what 
• matters to them differs.
• The trouble is that people with fundamentally different values often find it 
• difficult to agree on what they should do and why. Diverse ways of thinking are 
• essential for innovation; diverse values, based on differences about what matters 
• to us, often lead to squabbles.
• We Think succeeds by creating self-governing communities that make the most of 
• their diverse knowledge without being overwhelmed by the differences between 
• people.
• We Think enables a mass social creativity which thrives when many players, with 
• differing points of view and skills, the capacity to think independently and tools to 
• contribute are brought together in a common cause.
• Blogging is a prime example: it allows a mass of people to contribute their views, 
• but only rarely do they find a core to build around.
• We Think will not work where there is no core around which a community can 
• form.

Nelson Mandela

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10518716/David-Cameron-wants-to-save-Mandela-memorial-selfie.html - taken selfie by political leaders.




The revelation is quite stunning: amongst a great number of commemorative tweets about his death, at least 8% of all tweets (560,000) involved users ridiculing others for confusing his picture with that of famous actors.

Some of the 7.2 million tweets sent in the hours after Mandela's death have been used to recreate an iconic image of the leader

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nelson-mandela-dead-twitter-tributes-2896911#ixzz2o2c9DYiy
Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook

 Twitter profile image also of Mandela. 

Tom Daley

Both of the links below refer to the same situation yet Daily Mail portrays it more negatively.
Daily Mail article
Queerty article

Article in the 'guardian' makes references to Frank Ocean and Maria Bello.
Frank Ocean used his song lyrics to convey his sexuality, whereas Maria Bello posted a picture on her Instagram profile.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25183041

The link below explores the fact that Tom Daley's sexuality should not matter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/25193760
The telegraph however explores the significance: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10488416/Tom-Daley-is-the-most-significant-British-sportsman-to-come-out.html

Grandparents suprise - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2516759/Tom-Daley-comes-divers-grandparents-admit-surprise-new-boyfriend.html

The Telegraph broadsheet newspaper has a neutral view http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10487809/Tom-Daley-reveals-he-is-in-a-relationship-with-a-man-in-frank-YouTube-video-from-Olympic-diver.html

His youtube video received 6,801,015 views. It then received 145,933 likes and 5,765 dislikes.

Tom Daley previously received abuse from a 'twitter troll' when his dad passed away with cancer.

In the above images are a few screenshots from his twitter page, which shows how Tom Daley spread the video himself. 

He posted the YouTube into a tweet and Facebook status which allowed his followers to see the video, if not already had done (despite being categorised the most popular video on YouTube). The tweet received 

• 69,718RETWEETS
• 83,506FAVORITES

Which shows how the advancements in technology and social media enabled the spread of the video to accelerate. However he also received extremely negative comments to this, which was also expressed on Twitter, shown through the link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/homophobic-tweets-tom-daley_n_4372196.html