A Social Web, A Social World

I a social web

TB-L’s original vision

The original thing I wanted to do was to make it a collaborative medium, a place where we (could) all meet and read and write .

http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=20

1985: Born — Internet 2 years old; Nintendo release 'Super Mario Brothers' 1990: Start primary school — WWW being conceived 1992: 7 years old — first SMS message sent 1995: Amazon, eBay founded 1996: Heading towards secondary school — Hotmail launched; pay-as-you-go mobile tariffs; instant messaging 1998: Teenage years — Google founded 1999: Studying for GCSEs — Napster; Blogger 2001: Wikipedia; iPod 2002: Studying for A Levels — social-networking services appear 2003: University — Skype 2005: Graduation approaches — YouTube John Naughton: http://oscal.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lecture-text.pdf See also: http://www.preoccupations.org/2007/05/making_the_poin.html

http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/

There’s much more to social software than Facebook …

http://yasns.pbwiki.com/

www.dopplr.com

http://upcoming.yahoo.com

www.flickr.com

Slide courtesy of Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo! ( http://tinyurl.com/3cjgpp ; pdf)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Ludens

www.patientopinion.org.uk

www.fixmystreet.com

www.slideshare.net/jyri/microblogging-tiny-social-objects-on-the-future-of-participatory-media , Jyri Engeström, 2007.

Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/2lxfye

The Internet as a technology teaches us one value more deeply than any other: the joy of being connected. David Weinberger http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/000473.html

Evidence is mounting that younger people don’t think of the Internet as a collection of content that other people produce for them to consume ... [they] think about it as a dynamic, emergent & peer-produced repository to which they’re eager to contribute … Andrew McAfee (June, 2007) http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/never_email_anyone_over_30/

www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/156714082/in/set-72057594139269787

II the social web and education

http://pinkyparky.blogspot.com /

http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/ratemymates /

http://ollyrowse.blogspot.com

www.sedcontra.com

http://del.icio.us/Preoccupations/scholarship

… and you can do much of this in Facebook

… how intrinsic the use of Facebook is today among younger scholars - grad students & junior faculty - in their scholarship & teaching. Facebook, for now, is often the place where they work, collaborate, share & plan … O'Reilly Radar: Working in Facebook (2007) http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/working_in_face.html

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2463880684

http://www.myspace.com/edexcelresults

III employment

Thomas Vander Wal’s slide, from a talk given at St Paul’s: www.slideshare.net/vanderwal/going-social

Algis Leveckis, co-CEO of QuestG:

A generation of people is coming to the office and saying, ‘You expect me to use this?’

(from the FT article cited by Thomas Vander Wal, available online at http://tinyurl.com/2nefeh )

IV SPS

the 4ths

Autumn Term

ICT at school, home ... mobile

Internet & web: key figures and events

Reading the social web: browsers, RSS and search

Communicating & collaborating, on- and off-line I: Office(s); webmail, IM, chat, VoIP

Spring Term

Communicating & collaborating, on- and off-line II:

blogs & wikis

video- and photo-sharing

social bookmarking and tagging

maps

Summer Term

Responsibility and Identity

Wikipedia (critical reading, responsible writing)

Social software (privacy, safety, digital identity)

The Law:

copyright (links, permissions, problems);

music (file-sharing, DRM);

defamation and abuse (rights and responsibilities)

Games

Virtual Worlds

assemblies & elsewhere … an open office

Persistence Searchability Replicability Invisible audience

Mirroring Magnification

Mediated spaces Mediated publics are here to stay; yet they are complicating many aspects of daily life. The role of an educator is not to condemn or dismiss youth practices, but to help youth understand how their practices fit into a broader societal context. These are exciting times; embracing societal change and influencing the norms can only help everyone involved. danah boyd: http://tinyurl.com/2zad37

from http://meish.org/2007/08/16/facebook-and-the-perils-of-prodigious-sociability/

http://www.facebook.com/networks/?nk=50432225

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

the “nothing to hide” argument stems from a faulty premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong

We can't solve every potential privacy issue on the web or in real life. But we can and do use technology to empower people to make their own choices about the availability of their information. Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook http://tinyurl.com/yr5vto

“ BBC Two’s Newsnight commissioned an artist to paint this version of a photo showing Conservative leader David Cameron (back row, second left) while a member of the Bullingdon Club, an elite Oxford dining group. The photo can no longer be published.” BBC News The Daily Telegraph has the original, online, here . http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/5508106

http://mildlydiverting.blogspot.com/2007/07/facebook-aga-anti-gay-alliance.html

going forward

http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2007/youth/video.shtml

More than most, educators are well positioned to directly engage youth about their networked practices. They can posit moral conundrums, show how mediated publics differ from unmediated ones, invite youth to consider the potential consequences of their actions, and otherwise educate through conversation instead of the assertion of power. … Internet safety is on the tip of most educators’ tongues, but much of what needs to be discussed goes beyond safety. It is about setting norms and considering how different actions will be interpreted. It’s important to approach this conversation with an open mind and without condescension because, often, there are no right or wrong answers. danah boyd http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/?page_id=28