sm@jgc Session Two

Session Two
Blogging and Microblogging, Tagging, Syndication and Aggregation
Andy Coverdale & LeRoy Hill
B14 Jubilee Graduate Centre
5 February 2010

Session Two: Schedule
Blogging
Microblogging (Twitter)
Activity: Discussion
Tagging
Syndication and Aggregation
1pm Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions

http://www.wordle.net

Blogging: Anatomy of a Blog
Search
Archives / Calendar
Posts (reverse chronological)
Categories OR
Tags (List/Cloud)
Author, Date
Blogroll
About Page (Identity Profile)
RSS (Posts & Comments)
Comments

Blogging
Types
Blogs, Tumblogs and Microblogs
Technologies
Increasingly multi-media – links, tags, RSS feeds, images and video
New forms: video blogging, phone blogging
Hosting
Developer-hosted
Self-hosted

Blogging: Blog Writing
Cultural Identity
Biography, activism and citizen journalism
Individual activity – personal, subjective and expressive
Writing Skills
Regularity – writing discipline
Informality – opportunities to experiment with different writing forms / styles
Generality – writing to a wider audience
Contexts
Risk-free – shape ideas, formulate thoughts, and concepts
Work in progress – raw content for thesis, journal article or conference paper
Emphasis on personal perspective, opinion or experience

Blogging: Peer Review
The ‘Blogosphere’
Blogging Community – reading, linking to, and commenting on other blogs
Comments and Pingbacks – feedback and review
Traditional Forms of Peer Review
Formal support and feedback structures from experts and peers - limited in scope and frequency
Blogging – Informal, Distributed and Frequent
Establish sustainable channels of discussion, feedback and peer support
Extend beyond immediate research community – Geographically and Disciplinary
Blogs as ‘Boundary Objects’ (Efimova, 2009)
Efimova, L. (2009). Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. Enschede, Netherlands: Novay.

Blogging: Process and Reflection
Narrative
Journal style entry provides narrative structure (e.g. doctoral experience)
‘Following’ blogs
Reflective
Demonstration and documentation of process
Navigation
Searchable tool - chronological (time-based) vs. conceptual (ideas-based)
Chronological – by date, month, year
Conceptual – by category or tags

Microblogging
Twitter
Microcontent – ‘tweets’ (maximum 140 characters)
Following and followers
Retweeting, direct messaging, replies,
Lists, groups and hashtags
Twitter Technologies
Twitter clients and services – Interfaces, content support, tracking and visualisation etc.
Interconnectivity with other social media – e.g. Delicious (social bookmarking)

Microblogging: Academic Practice
Knowledge / resource sharing – posting, accessing and ‘retweeting’ links
Notification – new blog posts, publications and bookmarks, events, call for papers, announcements and cancellations etc.
Self-promotion
‘Crowdsourcing’ – asking questions, making enquiries
Real-time social networking and interaction
Real-time search engine
Events and conferences – the ‘backchannel’ and remote conferencing

Twitter: Social Media in Microcosm
Social interaction made visible
Following and ‘Unfollowing’
Reciprocity
(Academic) Hierarchies
Personal vs. Professional
Information Overload – the ‘Fire Hose’
Widespread institutional adoption (e.g. University of Nottingham)
Retweeting – Bottom-up / Top-down Design
Migration of activities / practices to Twitter

Activity: Discussion on…
In your table groups we would like you to discuss and reflect with each other on:
- 4 academic experiences or approaches you would like to share (blog)

- 4 academic experiences or approaches you would not want to share (blog)

List these in two categories Share/Not Share on the paper provided.

Tagging
Increase in volume and diversity of academic Web resources
Social media – emphasis on sharing and collaboration
Bookmarking
Personal Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
Collaborative Bookmarking
Tagging also prevalent in blogging, and content sharing sites (e.g. Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare etc.)
Dedicated academic sites and services

Tagging: Theory and Context
Folksonomy (Vander Wal, 2004)
‘Folk’ + ‘Taxonomy’
Knowledge resource created through the process of tagging
Taxonomy / Ontology Folksonomy
Top-down Bottom-up
Vertical / Hierarchical Horizontal / Non-hierarchical
Created by ‘Experts’ Created by many
Each ‘thing’ exists in one place Things exist in more than one place

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/GFO_taxonomy_tree.png
http://phdblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/calibrate.jpg

Social / democratic production
Interconnectivity of social media
Increased information flow – tools and strategies
Everything is Miscellaneous (Weinberger, 2007)
Information R/Evolution
Michael Wesch
Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University

Tagging: Bookmarking
Personal Bookmarking
Personal organisation / management of Bookmarks
Searchable – Tag List / Cloud
Further Organisation Tools – Bundle Tags / Multiple Sites
Group / Collaborative Bookmarking
Participatory and democratic knowledge base

Social Bookmarking
Use as search engine – keyword / user
Search other users bookmarks
Subscriptions, networks etc.
Tagging (in)consistency – Intra-personal and inter-personal

The navigation and management of digital environments through the syndication and aggregation of multiple sites, tools and services.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Subscribe to blogs, websites, podcasts etc.
Types of RSS / Feed Readers
Desktop-based
Browser-based
Web-based
http://www.gadgetsetecnologia.com/wp-content/themes/techozoic-fluid/images/rss_logo.jpg

http://www.rssreader.com/images/rssreaderscreenshot.gif

Web Portals
Methods of integration between applications (iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes etc.)

Personal Learning Environment (PLE) or Network (PLN)
Concept developed from e-learning / learning technologists
Seen as an alternative to VLE (e.g. WebCT)

VLE – Institutional, centrally managed, curriculum-based
PLE – Personal, learner managed, self-directed
Professional Development Tools
E-Portfolios

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions
Graduate School Feedback Forms
Please spend a few moments to fill in the feedback forms provided. Thanks.
Our last session is onWednesday 17 February:
Social Networking and Collaboration
Online Resource
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