Upcoming Seminar at oii, Oxford   What was Web 2.0? Versions past, present, future and the development of Internet historicity 4 May 2011 UPDATE: my paper is slightly different, now that it is finished. I have concentrated more on detailing the particular way in which versions came to the web, the consequences of that, and generally exploring the way ‘versions’ work as a particular kind of (popular) historiography. I will work on the historicity stuff next! In this paper, I discuss the emergence of the historicity of the Internet – that is, the explicit sense with practical consequences that the Internet has a history, and that it occupies a place in history which, through our use of it, also defines us as beings in time. While the term historicity has a long tradition within religious scholarship, marking efforts to determine the factual (as opposed to mythic) status of various ‘historical’ figures, I use the term with a more postmodern perspective. From this perspective it might be said all facts are myths and all myths are facts except that the politico-cultural discourses within which we know the world determine for us very clear, if contingent, boundaries between fact and myth. Historicity … Click to read more →