Web 2.0: Collaboration, Publication, and Storytelling Technology and Humanities November, 2006 George Mason University
Thematics Emergence in time and space Pedagogy Dynamic information ecologicy (Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)
Two theoretical notes “ Out of the dialectical exchange between the media-technological ‘base’ and the discursive ‘superstructure’ arise conflicts and tensions that sooner or late result in transformations at the level of media…”  -Friedrich Kittler, 1999 Also: Janet Murray’s two-step argument ( Hamlet on the Holodeck , 1997)
One historical flourish Responses to overload Cyclopedia  (Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie  (Diderot  et al,  1751-1772) (Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (636))
A current 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
A current 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  Literacy: audience
I. Web 2.0 Microcontent, rather than sites or large  documents Components and principles
I. Web 2.0 Multiply authored microcontent, rather than sites or large documents
I. Web 2.0 Open content and/or services and/or standards (Pepysblog, 2003-)
I. Web 2.0 Network constructivism (Pepysblog, 2003-)
I. Web 2.0 perpetual beta (O’Reilly)
I. Web 2.0 platforms for development (O’Reilly)
I. Web 2.0 Data mashups
I. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 components, movements Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way
I. Web 2.0 Wiki pedagogies Collective research Group writing Document editing Information literacy
I. Web 2.0 Research: wikis are textually productive -Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (IBM, 2004)
I. Web 2.0 Wikis are textually productive OhMyNews! , WikiNews
I. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 components, movements collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere
I. Web 2.0 Addressable content chunks
I. Web 2.0 Distributed, attached  conversations
I. Web 2.0 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…
I. Web 2.0
I. Web 2.0 State of the blogosphere 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…
I. Web 2.0 Two provocations Did popular courseware keep higher education from contributing? Did academia’s lack of engagement make it harder to catch up now? (cf Technorati 2006 November report)
I. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 components, movements: social objects Flickr http:// flickr.com /
I. Web 2.0 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/  )
I. Web 2.0 Reach of Flickr 22 million searchable,  shareable  images in Flickr (October 2006) (Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)
I. Web 2.0 Two provocations (Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006) Did  popular CMS/LMSes keep higher education from contributing? What collaboration design do we offer in comparison?
I. Web 2.0 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...”
I. Web 2.0 “… 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)
I. Web 2.0 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
I. Web 2.0 Social object principles: tagging (Flickr is one influential and leading tagging project)
I. Web 2.0 “ Home Owain Hestia Chickens Ripton”
I. Web 2.0 Folksonomy   User benefit Search Retrieval Self-awareness http://del.icio.us/ for DoctorNemo
I. Web 2.0 Community surfacing Ontology Concepts  Collaborative research
I. Web 2.0 Case study, tagging museums: the Steve project
I. Web 2.0 Tagging museums: the Steve project Expert discourse, controlled vocab
I. Web 2.0 Tagging museums: the Steve project Users tag differently Curators get it (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004)
Web 2.0 Tagging libraries: PennTags Coded locally
I. Web 2.0 Components, movements Mixing and mashing: the RSS feeding frenzy
I. Web 2.0 Components, movements: social objects Collaborative music: LastFM http:// www.last.fm /
I. Web 2.0 Teaching with Web 2.0 Distributed conversation Collaborative writing Object-oriented discussion http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/
I. Web 2.0 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
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 What’s happened since February 2004?
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 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
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 What’s happened since? Neologisms: godcasting nanocasting podfading podsafe podspamming podvertising porncasting
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 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
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 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
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 Social media: Web 2.0 video (Gootube? Suetube?)
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 Videoblogging (vlog? vog?) Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 Social media: Freesound archive (Freesound archive)
II. Rich media and Web 2.0 (Second Life, 2004-present) Social media: social gaming and Web 2.0?
II. Rich media 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 (Random sample stats)
III. Web 2.0 storytelling Web 2.0 storytelling Nonfiction ( Pulse ) Fiction (“I Found a Camera…”) Public intellectuals New art form: ARGs ( Pulse , screenshot fall 2006)
III. Web 2.0 storytelling Web 2.0 storytelling New art form: ARGs ( Perplex City , 2004- The Beast,  2000-2001)
III. Web 2.0 storytelling Flickr and storytelling Tell a story in 5 frames  group “ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)
III. Web 2.0 storytelling
III. Web 2.0 storytelling
III. Web 2.0 storytelling
III. Web 2.0 storytelling “ Gender Miscommunication”  (Nightingai1e, 2006)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling Flickr and social storytelling Feedback Revisions Peer group Audience  Personal microhistories   (“Alone With The Sand”,   moliere1331, 2005)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling Lonelygirl15 One YouTube Another YouTube Myspace (Jessica Rose, Ramesh Flinders, Miles Beckett,   2006-)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling Lonelygirl15 Blogs Discussion frenzy Media attention “ transmedia storytelling”(Jenkins 2006) (cryptic plush toy)
IV. Web 2.0 storytelling Pedagogies Multimedia compositions Creative writing Media literacy Scholarly publication (Noircast)
V. 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)
V. Anxieties and policies (Valdis Krebs, 2004)
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

DC Tech and Humanities talk

  • 1.
    Web 2.0: Collaboration,Publication, and Storytelling Technology and Humanities November, 2006 George Mason University
  • 2.
    Thematics Emergence intime and space Pedagogy Dynamic information ecologicy (Radio Open Source blog/podcast, 2006)
  • 3.
    Two theoretical notes“ Out of the dialectical exchange between the media-technological ‘base’ and the discursive ‘superstructure’ arise conflicts and tensions that sooner or late result in transformations at the level of media…” -Friedrich Kittler, 1999 Also: Janet Murray’s two-step argument ( Hamlet on the Holodeck , 1997)
  • 4.
    One historical flourishResponses to overload Cyclopedia (Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie (Diderot et al, 1751-1772) (Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (636))
  • 5.
    A current metaphorWeb 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
  • 6.
    A current metaphorWeb 2.0 and education is like gaming and education: intersections are possible Take advantage of preexisting projects Mod/warp/hack DIY Literacy: IF Literacy: audience
  • 7.
    I. Web 2.0Microcontent, rather than sites or large documents Components and principles
  • 8.
    I. Web 2.0Multiply authored microcontent, rather than sites or large documents
  • 9.
    I. Web 2.0Open content and/or services and/or standards (Pepysblog, 2003-)
  • 10.
    I. Web 2.0Network constructivism (Pepysblog, 2003-)
  • 11.
    I. Web 2.0perpetual beta (O’Reilly)
  • 12.
    I. Web 2.0platforms for development (O’Reilly)
  • 13.
    I. Web 2.0Data mashups
  • 14.
    I. Web 2.0Web 2.0 components, movements Collaborative writing platforms: the wiki way
  • 15.
    I. Web 2.0Wiki pedagogies Collective research Group writing Document editing Information literacy
  • 16.
    I. Web 2.0Research: wikis are textually productive -Viégas, Wattenberg, Dave (IBM, 2004)
  • 17.
    I. Web 2.0Wikis are textually productive OhMyNews! , WikiNews
  • 18.
    I. Web 2.0Web 2.0 components, movements collaborative writing platforms: the blogosphere
  • 19.
    I. Web 2.0Addressable content chunks
  • 20.
    I. Web 2.0Distributed, attached conversations
  • 21.
    I. Web 2.0State 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…
  • 22.
  • 23.
    I. Web 2.0State of the blogosphere 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…
  • 24.
    I. Web 2.0Two provocations Did popular courseware keep higher education from contributing? Did academia’s lack of engagement make it harder to catch up now? (cf Technorati 2006 November report)
  • 25.
    I. Web 2.0Web 2.0 components, movements: social objects Flickr http:// flickr.com /
  • 26.
    I. Web 2.0Reach 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/ )
  • 27.
    I. Web 2.0Reach of Flickr 22 million searchable, shareable images in Flickr (October 2006) (Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006)
  • 28.
    I. Web 2.0Two provocations (Ben Harris-Roxas, 2006) Did popular CMS/LMSes keep higher education from contributing? What collaboration design do we offer in comparison?
  • 29.
    I. Web 2.0What 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...”
  • 30.
    I. Web 2.0“… 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)
  • 31.
    I. Web 2.0What 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
  • 32.
    I. Web 2.0Social object principles: tagging (Flickr is one influential and leading tagging project)
  • 33.
    I. Web 2.0“ Home Owain Hestia Chickens Ripton”
  • 34.
    I. Web 2.0Folksonomy User benefit Search Retrieval Self-awareness http://del.icio.us/ for DoctorNemo
  • 35.
    I. Web 2.0Community surfacing Ontology Concepts Collaborative research
  • 36.
    I. Web 2.0Case study, tagging museums: the Steve project
  • 37.
    I. Web 2.0Tagging museums: the Steve project Expert discourse, controlled vocab
  • 38.
    I. Web 2.0Tagging museums: the Steve project Users tag differently Curators get it (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004)
  • 39.
    Web 2.0 Tagginglibraries: PennTags Coded locally
  • 40.
    I. Web 2.0Components, movements Mixing and mashing: the RSS feeding frenzy
  • 41.
    I. Web 2.0Components, movements: social objects Collaborative music: LastFM http:// www.last.fm /
  • 42.
    I. Web 2.0Teaching with Web 2.0 Distributed conversation Collaborative writing Object-oriented discussion http://smarthistory.blogspot.com/
  • 43.
    I. Web 2.0Social 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)
  • 44.
    I. Web 2.0Social news: Memeorandum, Tailrank, Digg, TechMeme
  • 45.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 Web 2.0 influences rich media Podcasting
  • 46.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 What’s happened since February 2004?
  • 47.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 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
  • 48.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 What’s happened since? Neologisms: godcasting nanocasting podfading podsafe podspamming podvertising porncasting
  • 49.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 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
  • 50.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 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
  • 51.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 Social media: Web 2.0 video (Gootube? Suetube?)
  • 52.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 Videoblogging (vlog? vog?) Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon
  • 53.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 Social media: Freesound archive (Freesound archive)
  • 54.
    II. Rich mediaand Web 2.0 (Second Life, 2004-present) Social media: social gaming and Web 2.0?
  • 55.
    II. Rich mediaand 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 (Random sample stats)
  • 56.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling Web 2.0 storytelling Nonfiction ( Pulse ) Fiction (“I Found a Camera…”) Public intellectuals New art form: ARGs ( Pulse , screenshot fall 2006)
  • 57.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling Web 2.0 storytelling New art form: ARGs ( Perplex City , 2004- The Beast, 2000-2001)
  • 58.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling Flickr and storytelling Tell a story in 5 frames group “ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)
  • 59.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling
  • 60.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling
  • 61.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling
  • 62.
    III. Web 2.0storytelling “ Gender Miscommunication” (Nightingai1e, 2006)
  • 63.
    IV. Web 2.0storytelling Flickr and social storytelling Feedback Revisions Peer group Audience Personal microhistories (“Alone With The Sand”, moliere1331, 2005)
  • 64.
    IV. Web 2.0storytelling Lonelygirl15 One YouTube Another YouTube Myspace (Jessica Rose, Ramesh Flinders, Miles Beckett, 2006-)
  • 65.
    IV. Web 2.0storytelling Lonelygirl15 Blogs Discussion frenzy Media attention “ transmedia storytelling”(Jenkins 2006) (cryptic plush toy)
  • 66.
    IV. Web 2.0storytelling Pedagogies Multimedia compositions Creative writing Media literacy Scholarly publication (Noircast)
  • 67.
    V. Anxieties andpolicies 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)
  • 68.
    V. Anxieties andpolicies (Valdis Krebs, 2004)
  • 69.
    National Institute forTechnology and Liberal Education http:// nitle.org NITLE blog http://b2e.nitle.org NITLE Lab http:// nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory