Tag: social media
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Social Media vs the Dictator – Clay Shirky
Lessons learned. The social context of technological-use is as important as the technology itself (try telling that to the practical minded Dictator!)
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Quick Response: Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 #oxsmc09
(Transcript below if you can’t follow my polemical prose; and sorry but the synchronisation in this clip has a mind of its own). I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on Friday (18 September) at the Said Business School. The theme of the Convention was ‘assessing the evolution, impact and potential of social media’;…
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Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics
An interesting new report from the Centre for Social Media at American University is Washington DC. This field report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnessed the micro-blogging tool Twitter to create innovative public media 2.0 experiments—first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then…
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New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities
(This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters. It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities. As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss…
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How to improve your Twitter voice!
I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better. I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?). Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my…