1. Take a look at blogger and wordpress and choose one to build your own blog.
2. Read this post by Robert Scoble on Social Media and blog about it.
3. Start thinking of a final project, but we'll discuss the requirements/parameters in more depth next week.
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I think perhaps "shared media" is a better term for these types of new media. The essence of their being is the ability to share information from both the creative and consumer sides.
"Social Media" has a connotation that somehow this technology has to have some meaning or purpose in a social context.
Something that is common and I guess for the sake of a new term.. adding 2.0 to the end of everything. What is the latest release? 2.0.1? That was my brief RANT.
I think that with all of these forms of digital media we are utilizing the web as a form of social networking. If this is the next thing there will be no need to leave the house. We have video, audio, news, dating, shopping, research, b2b, b2c, etc etc.. all at our fingertips. Soon we will no longer be in Second life, we will be in Life 2.0
I think the #7 comment had some good points- on the side of the devil's advocate- about commenting and correcting information within this new media platform. It is true that the main source of information isn't necessarily moderated directly, if anything, the "host" might more likely be moderating the comments and corrections themselves. There isn't a standard of information integrity, nor regulated or incentivized motivation to seek "truthful" information as much as there is the desire to provide "popular" hit-seeking information, or slanted-self-purposing information. I would like to think the best of human social nature, but I'm also a skeptic who's always waiting to find people trying to control information and the media... and this new media 2.0 platform does just that- it gives not just a select few the maximum control to publish/moderate information, but everyone their own maximum control to publish/moderate. It's not necessarily changing the ethical nature of media, just the influx of it.
John Welch's points in comment 7 we're thoughtful, especially about the role that a professional moderator can have on the accuracy and thoughtfulness of content. The blog posting itself illustrates... I had to wade through a bunch of sosocomments to get to some "meat" in comment 7. However, professional moderation doesn't, always assure diligent accuracy. Case in point: the lack of aggessive truth-seeking when Bush called us to arms against Iraq. There was not a critical-enough mass of contrarians on the net to change the course of those decisions in 2002-3... traditional media had the responsibility of agressively making sure that we all understood the truth about weapons of mass destruction, and cheney's agenda. Yet, they failed, as did so many, in choosing to believe what Bush-Cheney were telling us.
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