shouting loudly

1:20 Begins the Q&A session.

Forgive me for getting names wrong or not knowing them; will try to clean this up later.

Ethan Z. gives David Weinberger the “ceremonial first question.”

DW: Hospitality has been a big deal since the Old Testament. Has there been less focus on hospitality because of the fake intimacy with strangers from around the world? Why as a term has hospitality slipped away?

LT: Part of this is the explosion of connections on the internet. Explosion of media choices, explosive growth in flow of everything worldwide–information, products, capital, and so on. Everything but people.

We’ve stopped looking at the people behind it all. Even with the news. How often do you think of the person behind the news?

Thinking of different ways to measure hospitality: Ratio of listening to speaking. Incoming attention vs. outgoing attention. Examples:

Movie imports vs. exports. Obviously, US doesn’t do great here.
Links: Link to self or others? Here, blogs are very hospitable and newspapers very inhospitable.

Jason: Gatekeeping and training of journalists. Journalists and professional training.

LT: Journalism is a craft, not exclusively a profession. Professionalization leads to certain kinds of news. What can we do differently when journalism is an internet-based craft? How can we strive to improve our craft as non-professionals?

[???}: What's the hook? What's your organizing principle?

Suggestion: Erik Erikson, social psychological identity: Who is "I," "we," and "they"? How do we identify who's inside, outside, etc.?

1:31:
[???]: (Couldn’t hear; something about respect.)

Must make sure those whose voices should be included are included.

[???]: Is hospitality also an issue of large country vs. small countries?

EZ: US is now behind both India and Nigeria in terms of number of films exported, but US films have a much bigger footprint. Top grossing film in France is Titanic. In Australia, it’s Crocodile Dundee.

This has shaped the kinds of films that get made in the US. Summer blockbusters export well; “Boom!” sounds the same in every language. Woody Allen, in contrast, exports very poorly.

1:37
[???]: What are the norms in this community, and how do they conflict with local laws and cultures? [Ex: Something about (C) and fair use.]

LT: They don’t really conflict, they’re dialectical.

[???]: A lot of traditional notions of journalism are tied up w/ specific notions of public sphere. E.g., professional journalism is tied up w/ a centralized, equal public sphere.

GV doesn’t have one polity. How does this change your analysis?

LT: GV not trying to create a global public sphere–one cosmopolitan polity. It’s more like a public of publics–ala the internet being a network of networks.

[It's about 1,000 degrees in here and I'm fading fast. The q's keep coming, but it's time to admit that I can't blog and pay attn at the same time...]