libr 500 social media workshop 2015
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For Dr. Stephenson's class, 18 March 2015, for the last time. Sad.TRANSCRIPT
Social media in the digital age:an early discussion of its impact in libraries & archives
A 2 hr. workshop for students in LIBR500 at UBC’s iSchool
Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | LIBR 500 March 2015
“…social media is the social interaction among people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures/videos in virtual communities and
networks… social media is also "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that
allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content."[2]
[social media is also connected to] the emerging field of technoself studies…”~ Wikipedia entry “Social Media”
What is social media?
DISCUSS WITH ME:
What social media do you use?
Why? For what reasons?What does it mean “to be social” in the online sense???
1. Twitter
2. tumblr
3. Facebook
4. YouTube
5. Slideshare
6. Pinterest
6. Skype
7. Wikipedia
8. Instagram
9. Reddit
Ten (10) Popular Social Tools
10. Google?
BEING SOCIAL LINKS TO THE PAST
Standage says “today …we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing”. But S. says information has always been spread via intense social
networks. He cites letter-sharing in Cicero’s time as a foretelling of power (social/political) shifts in govt …and how religious tracts in 16th c. Germany
triggered the Reformation
Who is this guy?
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect – to help people work together – and not as a technical toy.” – Weaving the web, 1989
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (1955 – ) British engineer, computer scientist and professor is credited with inventing the WWW.
Currently, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization founded to create web standards and develop interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools)…
Who is this mobile user?
danah boyd, PhD • danah boyd (November 24th, 1977 — ) blogger, social media ethnographer and researcher, known for her insights into social networking practices of youth (particularly teenage girls).
• On her blog Apophenia boyd analyzes issues in our social media-saturated world has made her a go-to expert on social media & youth.
• boyd completed her PhD at the School of Information (iSchool), University of California, Berkeley, though doesn’t seem to identify as a librarian (some iSchool grads do).
• Her research examines social media, youth practices, tensions between the public and private self, social networking sites, and intersections between technologies and our society in the 21st century.
danah spent 7 years examining online teen cultures; she interviewed 166 teenagers hanging out “…in physical spaces like schools, parks & fast-food
restaurants… & observing teens through the traces they left online”.
Massive Open Online Courseshttp://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Massive_open_online_courses_%28MOOCs%29
What impact will they have on education?
How the Khan Academy changes the rules of education
Wired, 2011
Mass participation reveals unmet needs
I. THINK
What benefits are there to using social media? Write down one or two ideas (2-3 mins.)
II. PAIR Discuss your idea(s) for about 5-7 mins. with your neighbour
III. SHAREShare with class
Pros/cons of social media
Play & performance Appropriation Multi-tasking Distributed cognition Transmedia navigation
Jenkins Henry. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st century
What skills are needed to participate?
Is mobile important?what portable devices do you use?
in pursuit of library & archival objectives
LISTEN – PARTICIPATE – ENGAGE
…a model you can use to implement social media
start at “listen”
participate
& finally engage others
The benefits of the social web
• Encourage two-way interaction with user groups
• Share information, ideas & knowledge
• (Re)define libraries’ & archives; our mission & direction
• Embed information professionals where users are “living”
• ...Form communities (yes, even online)
• Stake our claim to being social
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca