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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2012  
         
  Article:   TALES OF DYSTOPIA FROM THE WEIRD WILD WEB: WEB 2.0 AND THE PARTICIPATORY DELUGE CULTURE.

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  Abstract:  In the recent years, the Web 2.0 umbrella–concept has started producing all sorts of ripples in the cultural landscape, some of which turned towards a dystopian color scheme. This paper is looking to emphasize upon the fact that seeing the web 2.0 as an end and not a means to something else can create its own implosion turning it into a massive cultural dystopia. Given the fact that content is there to be absorbed, reflected upon, shared and judged by human actors renders the content deluge issue even more complex. The need for content curation requires an urgency directly proportional with the motivation of esta¬blishing value and quality regarding types of web 2.0 content. What this study initializes an enquiry into the dystopian potential of “the machine” called Web 2.0 and is proposing/proposes a new figure of an interactive critic 2.0 who has as a task the establishing of excellence and quality in the heavy flow of data that invades the Web. This study therefore raises some questions about the role of the interactive critic as the solution for the seemingly diminishing role of traditional criticism as the incubator of gatekeepers of culture in the age of web 2.0.

Keywords: Web 2.0, participation, establishing excellence and quality, criticism, interactive paradigm, criticism 2.0. 		 
         
     
         
         
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