Media

Education

• exchange value
• commodization

• „crowdsourcing“

||Media as private corporate business

• Microsoft, CNN, …
• economical utility, control of content
• international IPR regime

• Education as politically directed institution (ideological apparatus)
• economical utility, control of content (educational policy)
• prolonged exchange value of a well-educated citizens
• Teachers and students as state-subjects

First stage of freedom

• economical utility, limited collaboration
• market sphere, entrepreneurship, multicultural capitalism
• limited autonomy of content

• „sharing“

Web 2.0

• YouTube
• Citizen TV
• Adbusters
• Google
• BookMooch.com

Educational publishing business + teachers

• Teachers and students as commodified semi-objects (knowledge creators, consumers…)
• Liberal communism (ex. Naomi Klein's critique towards marketization of schools), formal freedom (Zizek)

Double-Free

• user value/value in itself
• full autonomy of content
• limited autonomy of vehice, production
• Selbstentfaltung=responsibility and autonomy-in-interpedence (Merten)

• „commonist“

Media as collaboration

• Wikis (i.e. Wikipedia)
• Linux
• P2P (peer to peer)
• radical openness
• access to the Internet + power of the soviets (Zizek)

Education as collaboration

Transformative education and collaborative teaching

• Freire
  • employing student's interpretive categories
  • students as teachers and teachers as students and subjects for themselves
• learning as being
• reflective uncertainty

Triple-Free

• value inseparable from the world (vehice/content united)
• aristotelian finalities
• full autonomy of content
• full autonomy of vehicle, production

• „communist“

Immediate media practices

Wikipedia („knowledge commons“, Hartzog) + ecological autonomy + resources

• promoting other than materially-driven life forms
• electricity + access to the Internet + power of the soviets

„Deschooling Society“ (Illich)

• learning by doing, native skills, power of the student
• students and teachers as human beings, „life-long learners“ in a non-convential sense
• Learning as an existential, life-world category
• education as commons