sm@jgc session three
DESCRIPTION
Social Media @ Jubilee Graduate Centre. Series of sessions on the use of social media in academic practice. Delivered to PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). Session Three: Collaboration and Networking. 17 February 2008. Co-authored with LeRoy Hill.TRANSCRIPT
Session ThreeCollaboration & Networking
Andy Coverdale & LeRoy Hill
B14 Jubilee Graduate Centre17 February 2010
Session Three: Schedule
• Introduction• Social Media Values• Social Networks• Social Network Sites• Social Network platforms• Social Networking: Collaboration • Collaborative tools• Social Networking: Academic Practice & Research• Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection• Activity: Discussion• Social Networking: Theory & Context• CEN Case: An example of emerging social networking research
1pm Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions
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Social NetworksSocial Networks represent the links and interconnection between individuals.
- Traditional – Not easily identifiable- Social media/ Web – links can be
recognized.
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Online Social Networks Sites
http://social-networking-websites-review.toptenreviews.com/
Online Social Networks Platforms
1. Hosted /Commercial
Online Social Networks Platforms2. Open Source/ Own hosting
What makes collaboration possible?
Participation Consensus Collaboration
Collaboration & Social Networking
Social networking Collaboration
A number of tools and activities within the social networking context can lead to collaboration but it does not necessarily mean that collaboration is taking place.
Participation ConsensusCollaboration for knowledgeCo-creation.
Reflection
Collaboration Long hours of chatter
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
Facebook Groups
A number of these tools provide social, supportive and critical environments for participation and collaboration.
1. Social Networking
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
These tools allow individuals to conduct live meetings, trainings, presentations on the internet. These tools offer much more than web conferencing. They allow collaboration in the form of what is referred to as a webinar.
2. Synchronous Meetings
Features:-VOIP-Text Chat-White board screen- Polling
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
3. Online Sharing tools
•Sharing of academic content in different forms / media
•Dissemination of work to a wider audience.
•Tagging and annotation of content.
•Content can be linked to / embedded on other sites (e.g. blogs).
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
4. Wikis• Free, online collaborative
writing spaces that use simple formatting rules.
• Blog - One main author• Wiki – Multiple authors
• Allows individuals to edit the work of others
• Continuous – always a work in progress
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
3. Wikis
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
5. Real-time Collaborative Tools
SubEthaEdit
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
6. Annotation tools
Text: Typically a bookmarking tool to annotate (add sticky notes, highlights, etc.) web sites.
Audio: SpinVox , VoiceThread
Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context
7. Virtual Environments: Second life
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Social Networking: Academic Practice & Research
Participatory Learning Design for Network Learning
Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection
•No clear-cut way for doing internet inquiry…still emerging
•‘lateral surveillance’ or peer monitoring - The Work of Watching One Another in research contexts has implications for how the research is seen as opposed to traditional forms of observations.
•Professional identity and usernames. Questions of disclosure and trust
Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection
• Public, private or thirdspace? Or is it Private information in public places?
• What audience is your data intended for?Friends? family? Employer? Academic institution?
• Challenges of data ownership & prying data out of a social network.
• Most of the press on Social Networking sites has been on the
negative side.
Social Networking: Ethics & Data CollectionThe Facebook challenge• Massive users data a target
• Users’ expectation of privacy is violated. Why?• The data can easily be crawled by scripts, third party APIs• Much of personal data can be crawled.• Users Social map is searchable – your links exposed.• Facebook has right to user traffic data• Users are unaware or unconcerned of privacy issues.
• False profiles and identities questions the authenticity of FB
Social Networking: Analyzing network activity
1. Social Networking Analysis2. Community of Inquiry analysis
Activity: Discussion on…
In your table groups we would like you to :
Draw on your own academic practice to discuss situations where… 1. Networking is important2. Collaboration is important • What sorts of activities are involved?• What sorts of artefacts (documents etc.)
are involved?
Social Networking: Theory and Context
Actor Network Theory[Michel Callon and Bruno Latour]
Network Theory
Social Network Theory
Graph Theory
Social Networking: Theory and ContextConnectivism
George Siemens and Steven Downes
http://www.visual-mapping.com/2008/03/connectivism-learning-theory-for.html
Social Networking: CEN Case
Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions
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