Web 2.0 and Social Networking Concepts
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What is Web 2.0?
New wave of compelling Internet applications Web as a platform for sharing and collaborating New application paradigms and technologies:
Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Podcasting, AJAX, Mashups Tags and folksonomies Unidirectional publishing versus two-way street
Dynamic content controlled by users not webmasters
Social networks Fuzzy – best characterised by example:
Flikr, Google maps, del.icio.us, digg, last.fm, MySpace
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Wiki
User-contributed and edited content Wikipedia Collaborative information development Collecting opinions/suggestions
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Blogs
Weblog : a web-based diary
Dated “entries” Viewers can add comments and discussions Worldwide community of “bloggers” Freedom of expression Freedom of information – replicating “secret” content
“Blogosphere”
Journalism
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Anthropology.net
Subject-focussed community Uses wiki, blogs, tags -> folksonomy, RSS User-provided content
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MySpace.com
Social networking for teens and young adults This is where your kids are! Current and future students use it! >100 million users! Second busiest website on the Internet!
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Web 2.0 in Education
Wide range of uses being explored in US & now UK Warwick U gives all students their own blog Blog as record of learning Teacher blogs, learners comment and question Wiki as “blank canvas” which learners fill in Corporate blogs as information sharing tools
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Caution! User contributed content!
Illegal content
Defamatory Incitement Confidential
Reputational risk Internal contributors: Computing Regulations External contributors: click-through agreement? WG to develop guidelines Must not inhibit innovative applications!
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Questions?
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