Towards A Literacy of Cooperation
Published by Markus Sandy on 30 Oct 2005 at 5:28 pm.
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Bre Pettis declared “collaboration” the word of the month and I ran into some great videos that fit the theme perfectly. Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs helped organize a series of lectures on cooperative studies earlier this year through Stanford University and the Institute for the Future. Video recordings of several of the lectures in the series titled “Towards a Literacy of Cooperation” are available on the Internet Archive and may be of interest videobloggers and others interested in all forms of collaboration. Click here or on the picture to view an excerpt from this great series of lectures on cooperation, social networking, community building and collaboration. In the clip, Rheingold explains how we have been telling a story of competition for many years, but have the chance to tell a new story that empahsizes the importance of cooperation. There are many excellant speakers in the series, including Ross Mayfield of SocialText Wiki and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. Even Darwin’s writings on survial of the species is examined to see how he viewed the roles of cooperation and competition. Did Darwin get it wrong? The answer is as surprising as it is interesting.
