Intro
According to wikipedia.com:
Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share
opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media
can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video.
Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and
vlogs.
In this session we'll take a
look at a few of the common social media applications including mySpace,
Facebook and Flickr. We'll also look at some applications that are designed
specifically for academic use.
Gordon, can you tell us a little more about
what these social media tools?
�What we want to express
with the term social media is the fact that in media design we are aware of the
existence of others and the collaborations we see happening through the
so-called social software. Concrete examples of social media are online
communities, social networking places, social sharing tools (flickr),.... �
Source: Belgian Master
course in Communication & Multimedia Design: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2006-April/009573.html
How about some examples?
Eons:http://eons.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
Digg:http://www.digg.com
MyHeritage:www.myheritage.com
del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us
Facebook is probably a good example of what
many of our students are using. Can you use as an example of how these work
with some detail?
Let�s take a look at the
Facebook website site tour. [Source:http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/]
I�ve heard about social media applications that extend beyond the
desktop. Can you give an additional example?
Dodgeball: http://www.dodgeball.com/
Mobile
location-based service that functions using �devices formally known as cell
phones� and text messaging. See website for demo.
Are there any specific academic applications?
CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/
Is there a good comprehensive list of social media application
links?
Sure � Wikipedia maintains a great list that
is linked up in the shownotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
How about academic applications?
Blackboard/WebCT (www.blackboard.com) � RSS not available yet
Moodle (www.moodle.org) has a basic blogging tool. It has
the capacity to add tags and create RSS feeds for the other people in your
course/class.
�
Moodle is an �open
source� application��
ANGEL Learning (commercial)
Brihaspati (Open source,
commercial version also)
eCollege (commercial)
Desire2Learn (commercial)
Dokeos (open source)
Edumate (commercial)
LON-CAPA (open source)
.LRN (open source)
Sakai Project (open source)
Scholar360 (commercial)
WebCT (commercial, owned by Blackboard Inc.)
Vuepoint (commercial)
