Web 2.0 refers to World Wide Web sites that emphasize user-generated content, usability, and interoperability. It allows users to interact and collaborate by creating and sharing content in a social media environment. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and video and photo sharing sites. Web 2.0 has impacted access to information and media by democratizing the ability to create and distribute content, shifting power away from traditional gatekeepers. It has also enhanced creativity by empowering users to remix and build upon existing content.

1. Web 2.0
What is it?
What impact has it had?
Examples of Web 2.0 applications?

2. Make notes whilst watching each of the
following video clips:
David Gauntlett - Media and everyday life video
Xtra normal on David Gauntlett made by Reigate College students
Working with the people next to you, list 3 main points you can take
from Gauntlett’s video.
Wesch video - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Working with the people next to you, sum up Wesch’s ideas in one
sentence.

3. Defining Web 2.0 – not easy!
‘Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize user-generated
content, usability, and interoperability.’
‘Web 2.0 technologies facilitate participatory information sharing,
interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide
Web.’
A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social
media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual
community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the
passive viewing of content that was created for them.
Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web
applications, mashups and folksonomies.’
(Wikipedia, 2012 & 2016)
See this link for a useful overview: http://www.techterms.com/definition/web20

4. Web 2.0 is:

5. The impact of Web 2.0 on:
Access
Ownership
and power
Creativity
Anything else