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Howard Rheingold is a journalist and online communities pioneer (''The Virtual Community'') whose work explores the emancipatory potential for technology to augment human consciousness and social groups. With his roots in the American 1960s counterculture, Rheingold skilfully blends journalistic accounts of information technology development within an optimistic framework of personal transformation and civilisational renewal. Rheingold popularised the work of early computer scientists like Douglas Engelbart and J. C. R. Licklider in his book ''Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology'' (2000, MIT Press). His recent book ''Smart Mobs'' (2002, Basic Books) explores how emerging technologies like mobiles, social networking and WiFi are augmenting self-organising systems of cooperation between dispersed social actor movements. In 2004-2005 Rheingold convened the subject ‘Toward a Literacy of Cooperation’ at Stanford University, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. | Howard Rheingold is a journalist and online communities pioneer (''The Virtual Community'') whose work explores the emancipatory potential for technology to augment human consciousness and social groups. With his roots in the American 1960s counterculture, Rheingold skilfully blends journalistic accounts of information technology development within an optimistic framework of personal transformation and civilisational renewal. Rheingold popularised the work of early computer scientists like Douglas Engelbart and J. C. R. Licklider in his book ''Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology'' (2000, MIT Press). His recent book ''Smart Mobs'' (2002, Basic Books) explores how emerging technologies like mobiles, social networking and WiFi are augmenting self-organising systems of cooperation between dispersed social actor movements. In 2004-2005 Rheingold convened the subject ‘Toward a Literacy of Cooperation’ at Stanford University, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. | ||
Papers | ==Relevant Papers== | ||
* [http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf Technologies of Cooperation] | |||
* [http://cooperation.smartmobs.com/cs/files/IFTF_New_Literacy_of_Cooperation1.pdf Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation in Business] | |||
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf | * [http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/CooperationProject_3_30_05.pdf The Cooperation Project: Objectives, Accomplishments and Proposals] | ||
* [http://shl.stanford.edu/hum202_syllabus.html Toward a Literacy of Cooperation] | |||
http://cooperation.smartmobs.com/cs/files/IFTF_New_Literacy_of_Cooperation1.pdf | |||
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/CooperationProject_3_30_05.pdf | |||
http://shl.stanford.edu/hum202_syllabus.html | |||
URL: | URL: | ||
http://www.smartmobs.com/ | http://www.smartmobs.com/ | ||
http://www.rheingold.com/ | http://www.rheingold.com/ | ||
Email: | Email: | ||
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==More Information== | ==More Information== | ||
* | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rheingold Howard Rheingold on Wikipedia] | ||
[[Category:Bios]] | [[Category:Bios]] | ||
[[Category:Cooperation]] | [[Category:Cooperation]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:19, 2 January 2019
Howard Rheingold is a journalist and online communities pioneer (The Virtual Community) whose work explores the emancipatory potential for technology to augment human consciousness and social groups. With his roots in the American 1960s counterculture, Rheingold skilfully blends journalistic accounts of information technology development within an optimistic framework of personal transformation and civilisational renewal. Rheingold popularised the work of early computer scientists like Douglas Engelbart and J. C. R. Licklider in his book Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (2000, MIT Press). His recent book Smart Mobs (2002, Basic Books) explores how emerging technologies like mobiles, social networking and WiFi are augmenting self-organising systems of cooperation between dispersed social actor movements. In 2004-2005 Rheingold convened the subject ‘Toward a Literacy of Cooperation’ at Stanford University, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future.
Relevant Papers
- Technologies of Cooperation
- Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation in Business
- The Cooperation Project: Objectives, Accomplishments and Proposals
- Toward a Literacy of Cooperation
URL: http://www.smartmobs.com/
Email: hlr@well.com