Matt Webb on participatory culture and design
I was going to call this 50mins of pure mind candy, but that doesn’t quite capture it. Mind superfood might be a better description. Matt Webb’s opening keynote for Wedirections South is an mp3 superfood capsule for your brain. You just can’t unhear his ideas, it is true synapse rewiring material; this description barely does it justice:
The 21st century is a participatory culture, not a consumerist one. What does it mean when small teams can be responsible for world-size effects, on the same playing field as major corporations and government? We can look at the Web – breaking down publishing and consuming from day zero – for where we might be heading in a world bigger than we can really see, and we can look at design – playful and rational all at once – to help us figure out what to do when we get there.
So grab the mp3 and load it onto your prefered player, or just hit play on this embed:
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Bonus Content!
As Matt says on his blog, this was an extension of his Reboot 11 presentation:
You should watch this too.
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