Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion
“Walled gardens” is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, Goodman extends the walled garden metaphor for digital spaces by comparing it to everyday experiences of more literal ones: urban community gardens.
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MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman 136: The Garden and the Net
November 5, 2009 @ 6:02 am
[...] The Reference Section: Elizabeth Goodman on the web Audio and Video from Elizabeth’s recent talk on the Walled Garden metaphor [...]