NMC 2006 regional

Web 2.0: The Next Wave of Collaboration, Publication, and Storytelling New Media Consortium Regional Conference November, 2006 Trinity University

Plan of the talk

Web 2.0 in late 2006

Web 2.0 rich media

Browser gaming

Web 2.0 storytelling

Brooding and provocations

(Middlebury waterfall, spring 2006)

Thematics

Emergence in

time and space

Pedagogy

Dynamic information ecologicy

(Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)

One theoretical question

“ Out of the dialectical exchange between the media-technological ‘base’ and the discursive ‘superstructure’ arise conflicts and tensions that sooner or late result in transformations at the level of media…”

-Friedrich Kittler, 1999

Also: Janet Murray’s two-step argument

( Hamlet on the Holodeck , 1997)

One historical flourish

Responses to overload

Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728)

Encyclopedie (1751-1772)

Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (636)

One metaphor

Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: awareness is difficult

Huge, financially and quantitatively successful worlds

Global and rapidly developing

Bad anxieties, policies, and media coverage

One metaphor

Web 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: intersections are possible

Take advantage of preexisting projects

Mod/warp/hack

DIY

Literacy: IF/audience

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Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

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Multiply authored microcontent, rather than sites or large documents

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Open content and/or services and/or standards

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

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Network constructivism

(Pepysblog, 2003-)

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O’Reilly: perpetual beta

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O’Reilly: platforms for development

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Data mashups

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Web 2.0 components, movements

Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way

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Wiki pedagogies

Collective research

Group writing

Document editing

Information literacy

I. Web 2.0 Research: wikis are textually productive -Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (IBM, 2004)

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Wikis are textually productive

OhMyNews! , WikiNews

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Web 2.0 components, movements

collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere

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Addressable content chunks

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Distributed, attached conversations

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State of the blogosphere

57 million blogs tracked by Technorati:

“ As of October 2006, about 100,000 new weblogs were created each day… the doubling of the blogosphere has slowed a bit (every 236 days or so…”

(David Sifry, November 2006)

Chart follows…

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12 people million using three platforms, including LiveJournal: majority women (Anil Dash, MeshForum 2006)

Diversity: diaries, public intellectuals, carnivals, knitters, moblogs, warblogs home and abroad…

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Did popular CMS/LMSes keep higher education from contributing?

Did academia’s lack of engagement make it harder to catch up now? (cf Technorati 2006 November report)

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Web 2.0 components, movements: social objects

Flickr

http:// flickr.com /

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Reach of Flickr

100 million images, as of Feb 2006

As of October 2006, 4 million Flickr members (3/4 not in the US)

1 million photos uploaded each day

( http://www.radioopensource.org/photography-20/ )

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Reach of Flickr

22 million searchable, shareable images in Flickr (October 2006)

(Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)

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Reach of Flickr

(Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)

Did popular CMS/LMSes keep higher education from contributing?

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Web 2.0 enables the Web office

Example: Google Spreadsheets

http://spreadsheets.google.com/

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What can we learn from this? Ton Zylstra:

“ In general you could say that both Flickr and delicious work in a triangle: person, picture/bookmark, and tag(s). Or more abstract a person, an object of sociality , and some descriptor...”

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“… In every triangle there always needs to be a person and an object of sociality . The third point of the triangle is free to define[,] as it were.”

- http://www.zylstra.org , 2006

(emphases added)

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What can we learn from this?

Jyri Engesrom is succinct:

“ The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object .”

- http://www.zengestrom.com/ , 2005

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Social object principles: tagging

Flickr is one influential and leading tagging project

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“ Home

Owain

Hestia

Chickens

Ripton”

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Folksonomy

User benefit

Search

Retrieval

Self-awareness

http://del.icio.us/

for DoctorNemo

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Community surfacing

Ontology

Concepts

Collaborative research

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Case study, tagging museums:

the Steve project

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Tagging museums: the Steve project

Expert discourse, controlled vocab

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Tagging museums: the Steve project

Users tag differently

Curators get it

(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004)

Web 2.0

Tagging libraries: PennTags

Coded locally

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AJAX-based projects

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Components, movements

Mixing and mashing: the RSS feeding frenzy

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Components, movements: social objects

Collaborative

music: LastFM

http:// www.last.fm /

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Teaching with Web 2.0

Distributed conversation

Collaborative writing

Object-oriented discussion

http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/

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Social object: the person

FaceBook

MySpace

LinkedIn

ZoomInfo

Spock

CyWorld

“ Less than four years after its launch, 15 million people, or almost a third of the country's population, are members.” ( BusinessWeek , September 2005)

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Social news:

Memeorandum, Tailrank, Digg, TechMeme

II. Rich media and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 influences rich media

Podcasting

What’s happened since February 2004?

What’s happened since?

“ More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing.”

-Pew Internet and American Life study,

April 2005

What’s happened since? Neologisms:

godcasting

nanocasting

podfading

podsafe

podspamming

podvertising

porncasting

Podcasts and teaching: profcasting

Bryn Mawr College: Michelle Francl, chemistry

Duke: Classroom recording

Learning objects: Gardner Campbell, University of Richmond

Duke: Course content dissemination

Information literacy

Podcasts and research

Public intellectual

Out of the Past

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Napoleon 101

In Our Time

Trudi Abel, “Digital Durham and the New South” (Duke University, 2006)

Duke: Field recording

Social media: Web 2.0 video

(Gootube? Suetube?)

Videoblogging

(vlog?

vog?)

Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon

Social media: Freesound archive

(Freesound archive)

(Second Life, 2004-present)

Social media: social gaming and Web 2.0?

Size of Second Life:

1 million residents, October 2006

“ the new golf”, Second Life (Joi Ito)

Compare the field

6 million players, World of Warcraft

1 million players, Virtual Magic Kingdom

Diversity: platform, genre, content

III. Browser gaming

Within the larger framework of gaming

Devices: Web-dependent

Relatively low cost

Small scale

Global

III. Browser gaming

Within the larger framework of gaming: genre

(Grow Chronon, 2006)

Puzzle

Adventure narrative

Action

III. Browser gaming

Social network aspects

Contexts

Help files

Development

(Grow Chronon, 2006)

III. Browser gaming

Pedagogical issues

Student-authored games

Media landscape: minigames

“ The Phone” (Stacy Road, 2004)

IV. Web 2.0 storytelling

Web 2.0 storytelling

Nonfiction ( Pulse )

Fiction (“I Found a Camera…”)

ARGs

Public intellectuals

“ I Found a Camera Lost in the Woods” (2004)

Flickr and storytelling

Tell a story in 5 frames group

“ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

IV. Web 2.0 storytelling “ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

Flickr and storytelling

In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand'

(moliere1331, 2005)

Lonelygirl15

One YouTube

Another YouTube

Myspace

Blogs

Discussion frenzy

Media attention

(2006-)

V. Anxieties and policies (Valdis Krebs, 2004)

V. Anxieties and policies (Gwynneth Alexander, Fort Ticonderoga ferry landing, summer 2006)

V. Anxieties and policies Policy fears - DOPA: “’ Social networking sites such as MySpace and chat rooms have allowed sexual predators to sneak into homes and solicit kids,’ said Rep. Ted Poe…” -C|Net (on the way to Bryan’s office, spring 2006)