Entry: feedback H2O Jun 1, 2004



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Title: response to session 6

First of all i see P2P networks as a positive thing in the cultural landscape and it should be stimulated. With more people and products we can achieve a lot of more in the world.
An axample is a filmfestival where i have to look for films that are good for the programme of the festival.
I first should look for data about the films and distributors that have the movies that i'm looking for. Every festival has a databank with connections that they have gathered over the years. The network they allready build up, still exists and i should be the one that keep the contacts for this festival.
Second, i am going to make the network bigger by adding more people in the network. i am contacting people that i know and they give me addresses that they know about films and so the network extents.
The filmfestival network can't be that very big, so when i'm connected to the people i allready know, i can contact they people they know.
Through info exchange and contacting i am in their network and they are in mine. So the network is bigger and in my opinion it is a good deal to have a big network because you can allways learn from other people and i can help others. So stimulation is a good point in the P2P network. Concluding, filmfestival networks should help each other building up a network for providing movies to each other. people should go watch each others festivals and talk to organisations.
So networking is about making contact, keeping contact and provide contact to others.  

My feedback for...?

Hello,

First of all, I think you have chosen a good example for this assignment, because as far as I know filmfestivals can indeed benefit from a good network. So, I think your suggestion to look for data and an already existing network and then to try to extend this network seems like a good idea. However, you also say that "a filmfestival network can't be that very big". Why do you think that? And who do you think belongs to a network like this? Are these only the organisers of filmfestivals and the many filmmakers, or also the people who visit these festivals etc.?
        Furthermore, I agree with you that it's important to make and keep (in) contact with as many 'important' people as possible and to exchange information. I also see your point that "people should help each other", but will they actually do that? And if not, how would you stimulate this? Overall, I think your assignment is fine.

 
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Giedre Ciuzaite
June 1, 2004   04:29 PM PDT
 
Hi, Jennie,

here's feedback to your comments on p2p. Sorry,'but I wasn't fast enough to post it to H2O.

Giedre

Jennie, I like that you try to apply all sorts of knowledge we got during the lecture to analyze p2p collectivities. I also agree with your statement that there are many sorts of p2p networks and probably it would be more efficient to choose a target group when discussing this question otherwise it’s too broad. However, a part of your argumentation is quite vague for me. E.g. when you say that you’d offer for the “think tank” to use “brokers” who can “spread word” quickly and be updated through mapping programs, I miss the point what for they should be used. For research of audience? On one hand, I agree. On another hand (as far as I understood from the lecture) researches show that these most active nodes of interconnection aren’t necessary the most important and often just redundant for the communication, it seems to me important to apply this characteristic when speaking of the concept “peer-to-peer” which itself includes the notion of “straightforward” communication.

You also say that “Most p2p collectivities are very extensive and this makes it more difficult to control them, so my advice would be to not even try to do this”, and later suggest to support and probably stimulate p2p communities. These statements sound like the essence of your response, but I find them too general and lacking good examples. As for “flash-mobs”, I thing it this example could be used for opposite purposes, for instance when speaking of p2p as a temporarily occurrence. If you look to global “flash mobbers” communities, they are already passing away. And the use of this example as of “big impact” thing needs more argumentation, e.g. that it was one of the impulses for the change in understanding how people may gather in “real” space without direct contact arrangements.

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