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Web 2.0, Society 1.0 Online citizens media, but
for which citizens? Lou Rutigliano PhD
student Dept. of Journalism UT-Austin
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WEB 2.0 The Web is Where We Live - Newsweek
(March 2006) MySpace 65 million
users Craigslist 7th most popular site, staff of
19 Wikipedia, Flickr, del.icio.us,
facebook..... When people say to me it's a Web
2.0 application, I want to puke - Guy Kawasaki,
venture capitalist
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WEB 2.0 user-generated content From WIDE
Gather Collective Knowledge, With No Limit To
What You Can Fit To NARROW Find Info That Fits
Your Specific Circumstances
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Web 2.0 journalism Read and write your views,
reviews, news, interviews, and more. Pick a story
and cover it -IBrattleboro resident-generated
content Which communities can most benefit from
this? Which communities are least involved in
this?
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Web 2.0 meets the poor Katrina used
for -Finding People -Finding Housing -Finding
and Providing Services Responding quicker than
most print or televised media and in considerably
more detail, the Austin Web once it learned of
our role in taking in thousands of hurricane
evacuees put the information out almost as
quickly as it was available. -Austin
Chronicle http//austinhelpingneworleans.org/ htt
p//austinhelpskatrina.org/
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Multiple Digital Divides Beyond Access -Digital
Literacy -Time -content Implied here is a move
from thinking about the bare fact of access
towards thinking about how that fact connects
with the real needs and conditions of those to be
connected." - Nick Couldry
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Austin Free-Net established 1995 brought access
to Austin public libraries
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Austin Free-Net working with 14 partner
organizations provides hardware and service
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Austin Free-Net organizations include senior
housing, homeless shelter, community activists,
cultural groups
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Austin Free-Net -now also involved in education,
assistance with community content
development -currently studying partner sites'
resources, design, goals Research Questions 1.
what are the information habits of afn's public
access site users? 2. what are the obstacles to
digital inclusion in austin's low-income
neighborhoods? 3. how do afn's partner sites try
to overcome these?
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Casa marianella
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Casa Marianella
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Garden Terrace
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Garden Terrace Computer Lab
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Conclusions... -current version of access not
enough -Links Between Offline and Online -Access
and Non-Profits Mutually Beneficial -Need for
Education and a Role for Universities
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...and a Plan -UT/AFN collaboration -21st
Century Community Newsrooms project -Interdiscipli
nary (kiosk designers wanted) -contact me at
rutigliano_at_mail.utexas.edu