The internet as a shared work desk : Two international online projects with NID-students in spring 2005
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The world of the internet is changing its face. We have been getting used to drawing out every kind of desired information from the comprehensive, omnipresent world wide web. Now, the internet is transforming itself from mainly an information supplier into a space that allows elaborate communication and interaction. The dream of the early internet pioneers was to build a democratic medium, where everyone could participate, not only as consumers, but as producers of knowledge, art and culture too - this dream seems to become more and more true recently. Thanks to so called "social applications" it becomes easy to share, publish, communicate and interact on a virtually world wide platform. Moreover, the collaborative development of projects have become feasible online, allowing separated parties to gather and work, as if sitting together in the same room, at the same desk. With two projects, in spring 2005, students from Nagaoka Institute of Design could experience the newest developments with online communication and learn how to use those for their own tasks. In both projects the counterpart was abroad, thousands of kilometers away and in a different culture: in Central Europe. The participants had to rely exclusively upon internet tools for all their collaborations. This article mainly presents the two projects, their contents and the participants' experiences. I will embed it with a short description of how and why the internet is transforming into a collaborative medium, a fact which will effect our whole society in many ways.
- 長岡造形大学の論文
- 2006-03-15