Forecasting the Future of Social Computing Elizabeth Lane Lawley Director, RIT Lab for Social Computing 5 May 2008 17 th Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Gopher, ca. 1992

The Web, 1993

ICQ, 1997

Blogs, 2002

Social Networking Sites, 2002

Social Bookmarks, 2003

Social Photos, 2003

Continuous Partial Attention, 2004

IRC and “Backchannels” 2004

World of Warcraft, 2005

Gaming in Libraries, 2006

Hyper-Personal ‘News Feeds’

What’s coming?

Continuous Complete Attention they.misled.us/dark-room hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom

Ambient Displays

Ambient Presence

Mobile Phone Magic: Grand Central

Mobile Phone Magic: GOOG-411

Mobile Phone Magic: Jott

Mobile Phone Magic: Barcodes

Backlash to the Tangible

RIT’s Library

Tech Knitters

Reclaiming Public Spaces

Pervasive Games/ARGs

Passively Multiplayer Online Gaming

http://www.42entertainment.com/see.html

context is king, not content it’s about unfettered experience what’s the immersive experience we’re creating in public libraries? - Stephen Abram (via Jenny Levine) (photo by Michael Sauers)

(from Andrew Hinton’s wonderful presentation on information architecture)

What Makes Us Happy? satisfying work to do the experience of being good at something time spent with people we like the chance to be a part of something bigger than ourselves

satisfying work to do

the experience of being good at something

time spent with people we like

the chance to be a part of something bigger than ourselves

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