Tag Archives: Social information processing
Reddit, Course Discussion, and Badges
This semester I am using a community on Reddit to run my course. I’m certainly not the first to do this. Here, for example, is a subreddit for a Japanese language course, part of the whole University of Reddit project. Using existing social software for course management is also nothing new. The code that runs […]
Posted in Teaching, Technology Also tagged badges, blackboard, Community websites, course management, LMS, netcult, online discussion environments, Reddit, Slashdot, social software, Stack Overflow, University of Reddit 2 Comments
The Privacy Trade Myth
Cory Doctorow has a new essay in Technology Review entitled “The Curious Case of Internet Privacy”. He begins by outlining the idea of “the trade” an idea he rightly suggests has risen to the level of myth. “The trade” is simply that you are permitted to use a system like Facebook for free, and in […]
Blogging in the plural
Most scholarly treatments of blogging begin with a reference to Rebecca Blood’s (2000) history of the idea of blogging, or draw on a standardized definition like the one offered by Jill Walker (2003), which suggests that a weblog is “a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order,” and goes on […]
Posted in Research Also tagged Blogging Iceberg, blogs, communication networks, computer networking, Computing, Elizabeth L. Comments, free blogging software, Free Press, Harrison, Internet, Jill Walker, Kurt H. Worlff, New York, New York City,New York,United States, New York,United States, Physics Teacher, public relations specialists, Rebecca Blood, Reinhard Bendix, representative, Richard Feynman, Rochester, Rochester,New York,United States, scholarly networking, social networks, social technologies, State University of New York, State University of New York Press, Technology, Technology_Internet, The Physics Teacher, Timothy Stephen, Twenty-First-Century University, web document, Weblog software, World Wide Web 7 Comments
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