Thursday, August 27, 2009

Lecture 5 - Media? New Media? Social Media?

Harold Rheingald - The vitual community
Individual identity - Turkle 1995 "Life of the screen"

The virtual communities connected by shared interests but moved to Ego - Centric Social Networks.

being able to talk to anyone with same interests to people you know.

"Web 2.0" - new era of the internet
business thing - focuses on "people" and what they look for
features:
folksonomy - organising knowledge ie. Wikipedia

user-generated content - making things (photos, text) to put on the internet. Participatory Culture 2006

open API - sharing data openly between services on the internet... like on twitter and blogger but not Facebook.

Social Media:

- weblogs/blogs

- social network services (SNSs)

- content sharing communities (flickr)

"Attention Economy" and "Economy of Accumulation"

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