Technology and Media in Practice: 4 February 2008 [email_address]

Social Networker? Lifeblogger? Second Lifer? Blogger?

Social Networker Lifeblogger Second Lifer Blogger User/Producer Medium = Control Medium = Playground Researcher Responsibility

User consumer customer reader listener participant

Producer creator designer innovator generator colleague

Producer creator designer innovator generator colleague User consumer customer reader listener participant collaborator

Collaborator Old media vs. New media Limited options vs. Plethora options Passive feedback vs. Active feedback Slow iteration vs. Immediate iteration Low expectation vs. High expectation Distributed responsibility vs. Personal responsibility

Old media vs. New media

Limited options vs. Plethora options

Passive feedback vs. Active feedback

Slow iteration vs. Immediate iteration

Low expectation vs. High expectation

Distributed responsibility vs. Personal responsibility

Privacy Control

Identity Privacy Control

Identity in online space: Can such a thing exist? Who’s who online?

Production of self in text Production of self as avatar Production of self as website Production of self as online identity

Learning online Live, interactive, iterative, immediate, visual, visceral, demonstrable, prolonged, pervasive, collaborative, ludic, aware, responsive, attentive, directed, involved, participatory, engaged

Online space Extension, elaboration, outlet, playground

Trust: the only currency in cyberspace

Your task: Design 3 avatars profiles, drawings, homes Public figure Researcher Self-expression How do they relate to your offline roles? What do you have to consider in terms of control for each?

Your task:

Design 3 avatars

profiles, drawings, homes

Public figure

Researcher

Self-expression