Images

• Social image services:
  • Flickr
    • examples: personal images, medical images, art history
  • Google's Picasa
    • Picasa examples - Scuba and Skiing
• Art Sharing:
  • http://www.deviantart.com/

Audio

• Podcasting: see the podcasting wiki page
• Synchronous audio, or VOIP (Skype)

Video

• Social video: YouTube, Google Video, Bliptv

• Videoblogging, a/k/a vlogging

• Media mashups: "Shining", a lost Lord of the Rings (warning: these are direct links to really big movie files; download first for later viewing, or be patient while they load up)
• Video and social video storytelling: Digital storytelling, lonelygirl15

More social objects

“The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object.” -Jyri Engesrom, 2005

Bookmarks

• del.icio.us (one example)

Folksonomies

• the Steve museum project (research, tag engine and examples)

(tag cloud image from "ycc2106")

Spreadsheets

• Google Spreadsheets

Note-taking

• Notemesh

Drawing

• Gliffy

Presentations, like PowerPoint

• Thumbstacks
  educational uses

Books: sharing book collections and interests

• LibraryThing, Goodreads

Micrblogging

• Twitter
  Twitterific, examples of use
  Akshay Java et al, "Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities" (2007)
• Facebook status

Web serendipity

• StumbleUpon

portals

• PageFlakes

Mashing up the new web

• Still more new forms: smARThistory; Mitchell Stephens, Without Gods; Robert Frenay, Pulse

Emergent social media issues and practices

• Crowdsourcing astronomy
• New literacies: Rheingold's thesis
• A question for rich digital media: Pandora vs LastFM? social or automated?
• Library 2.0: Wikipedia entry, one reading list, Walt Crawford's critique
• cloud computing

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Selected readings

->Yochai Benkler, "Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials". Presented at the September 2005 Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference.

->Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott, "Social Bookmarking Tools: A General Review". D-Lib, April 2005.

->Mary Hodder, “For the Vox Populi: A Comparison of How Some Blog Aggregation and RSS Search Tools Work”. Napsterization, July 24, 2005.

->Clay Shirky, “Ontology is Overrated”. presentations given during spring 2005.