Tag: social software
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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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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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Podcast/Press Release: ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ report
JISC recently released a report on ‘Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World’. The aim of the report is to critically assess recent Web-based developments commonly termed ‘Web 2.0’ and assess them in relation to education and pedagogical practice. The report is available on-line and in hard-copy; plus some of the key findings are discussed…
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Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009
On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that…
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Web 2.0 in higher education
There is a belief in some circles that Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Drupal are labour saving devices and that their very presence online will spontaneously invoke a community of highly-skilled individuals that will submit content and build the system in a coherent and meaningful way. This idea is a myth as…