Web 2.0 intro

Web 2.0: The Next Wave of Collaboration and Storytelling NITLE Emerging Technologies workshop December, 2006 Union College

Plan of the talk
Web 2.0 in late 2006
Web 2.0 rich media
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 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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Data mashups

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O’Reilly: perpetual beta

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O’Reilly: platforms for development

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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)
Its metadata is good enough
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)

I. Web 2.0
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. Web 2.0 storytelling
Web 2.0 storytelling
Nonfiction ( Pulse )
Fiction (“I Found a Camera…”)
ARGs
Public intellectuals

Flickr and storytelling
Tell a story in 5 frames group
“ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)

III. 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-)

IV. 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)

IV. Anxieties and policies (Valdis Krebs, 2004)

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

National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education http:// nitle.org
NITLE blog http://b2e.nitle.org
NITLE Lab http:// nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory

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