{"product_id":"collective-wisdom-isbn-9780262543774","title":"Collective Wisdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow to co-create—and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated massive prehistoric rock carvings; it powered the development of vaccines for COVID-19 in record time. Co-creation offers alternatives to the idea of the solitary author privileged by top-down media. But co-creation is easy to miss, as individuals often take credit for—and profit from—collective forms of authorship, erasing whole cultures and narratives as they do so. \u003ci\u003eCollective Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first guide to co-creation as a concept and as a practice, tracing co-creation in a media-making that ranges from collaborative journalism to human–AI partnerships.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhy co-create—and why now? The many coauthors, drawing on a remarkable array of professional and personal experience, focus on the radical, sustained practices of co-creating media within communities and with social movements. They explore the urgent need for co-creation across disciplines and organization, and the latest methods for collaborating with nonhuman systems in biology and technology. The idea of “collective intelligence” is not new, and has been applied to such disparate phenomena as decision making by consensus and hived insects. Collective \u003ci\u003ewisdom \u003c\/i\u003egoes further. With conceptual explanation and practical examples, this book shows that co-creation only becomes wise when it is grounded in equity and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith Coauthors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuanita Anderson, Maria Agui Carter, Detroit Narrative Agency, Thomas Allen Harris, Maori Karmael Holmes, Richard Lachman, Louis Massiah, Cara Mertes, Sara Rafsky, Michèle Stephenson, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Sarah WolozinIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 \"We are Here\": Starting Points in Co-Creation 19\u003cbr\u003e2 Nothing About Us Without Us: Co-Creating Within Communities 75\u003cbr\u003e3 Estuaries: Co-Creating Across Disciplines and Organizations 149\u003cbr\u003e4 Plants, Animals, Gods, and AI: Co-Creating with Nonhuman Systems 193\u003cbr\u003e5 Field Guide: Risks and Lessons of Co-Creation 231\u003cbr\u003e6 Conclusion: Where to From Here? 295\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 303\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Related Media Projects 307\u003cbr\u003eNotes 327\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 339\u003cbr\u003eBiographies of Authors and Coauthors 361\u003cbr\u003eIndex 363\"The myth of the single author is beautifully exposed with the bright light of co-creation, which gives us our power as collective storytellers and makers fueled by care, responsibility and humility.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sarah Polley, Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My first thought as an educator, I need all my students to read this!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ruha Benjamin, author of \u003ci\u003eRace After Technology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eViral Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCollective Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with a utopian possibility. Through rich references and real-life stories, the coauthors show how our futures are connected and how, if we ignore this, we will face disasters even harder to grasp and control.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ai Weiwei, author of \u003ci\u003e1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCollective Wisdom \u003c\/i\u003eis a seminal work that surfaces critical ideas for how to be better designers of our future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kamal Sinclair, co-author of\u003ci\u003e Making a New Reality \u003c\/i\u003eand member of the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eInteractive Board, Peabody Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This book is a much needed tool to build a more conscious and interdependent society\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Hank Willis Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecommended Book, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, 2022.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eKaterina Cizek, an Emmy and Peabody–winning documentarian, is the Artistic Director and Cofounder of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab. William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, where he is also Founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304304103653,"sku":"NP9780262543774","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543774.jpg?v=1767723912","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/collective-wisdom-isbn-9780262543774","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}