"DIY" was a term embraced by a group of anti-consumer non-conformist punks before it was a shopping network. Henry Jenkins blogs: " Do It Yourself" is too easy to assimilate back into some vague and comfortable notion of "personal expression" or "individual voice" that Americans can assimilate into long-standing beliefs in "rugged individualism" and "self-reliance." Yet, what may be radical about the DIY ethos is that learning relies on these mutual support networks, creativity is understood as a trait of communities, and expression occurs through collaboration. Given these circumstances, phrases like "Do It Ourselves" or "Do It Together" better capture collective enterprises within networked publics."

Cyber-studies is often bifurcated by a euphoria/pessimism divide focusing on questions like whether the internet opens or closes conversation and community; is democratic or corporate-controlled particularly around issues of copyright and intellectual property; produces new forums for expression or calcifies prevailing borders as well as possibilities for surveillance.

Critical Pedagogy "has traditionally referred to educational theory and teaching and learning practices that are designed to raise learners' critical consciousness regarding oppressive social conditions. In addition to its focus on personal liberation through the development of critical consciousness, critical pedagogy also has a more collective political component, in that critical consciousness is positioned as the necessary first step of a larger collective political struggle to challenge and transform oppressive social conditions and to create a more egalitarian society."

One of my ten founding terms for this project is PRODUCER: We need to expand the role of the artist/intellectual in society: who makes, when, what and with which supports. This begs us to consider the difference between a politics of self-expression and that of cultural revolution.