SSAW Panel Seb
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Social Software in/with/for the Academy (Seb)
An overview of social software tools and practices supporting (and sometimes subverting?) academic culture and practices
A few slides are here: http://seb.jot.com/WikiHome/SsawOpeningPanel
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Lineage
- 60s - The Old Skool - thinking together. Shared documents. Licklider, Englebart, Ted Nelson, PLATO. see Rheingold's excellent Tools for Thought (http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/)
- 70s-80s - the Net grows within academia - the ListServ / Newsgroups era
- early 90s - the Web is born as a collaboration tool out of a research lab; IRC and MUDs/MOOs blossom
- late 90s - The Net bursts out of academia, the one-way Web, early online communities
- 00-05 - The two-way (read/write) Web is born, Golden Age of social software; MMORPGs
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Tools and Uses
- Mailing lists (http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2005-May/thread.html) and Newsgroups
- Literature Tools - Sharing articles, references
- ArXiV.org preprint archive (http://arxiv.org/)
- HubMed and http://www.biologging.com/blog/286 Biologging (http://www.hubmed.org/)
- CiteUlike and http://www.connotea.org/ Connotea (http://www.citeulike.org/)
- Weblogs - "what's new? / where have we been?"
- Personal research blogs (http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/ResearchBlogger) and learning portfolios
- Class weblogs (http://exonous.typepad.com/nkda/) - Class management, student interaction
- Topic weblogs, most often collectively authored, e.g. Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/) (linguistics), Many-to-Many (http://www.corante.com/many/) (social software), Terra Nova (http://terranova.blogs.com/) (virtual worlds)
- Wikis and CMSes - collaborative textbooks, reference works, content commons
- Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) - free encyclopedia
- Planetmath (http://planetmath.org/) - free mathematics encyclopedia
- IA Wiki (http://www.iawiki.net/) - Information Architecture
- MeatBall Wiki - Patterns and principles of online communities (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki)
- Connexions (http://cnx.rice.edu/)
- At local range - lab wikis, course wikis, student community wikis
- Chat - spontaneous conversation, backchanneling
- SWIG (http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/chatlogs/swig/2005-05-13.html) (and scratchpad (http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2002/04/26/2002-04-26.html))
- Virtual environments
- MUDs/MOOs (died in the 1990s)
- Virtual reality environments (e.g. Second Life Future Salon (http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/))
- General-purpose social software
- Social networking (https://www.linkedin.com/home?trk=logo), social bookmarking (http://del.icio.us/tag/socialsoftware)
- LCMSes / courseware (Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/), WebCT)
- Integrated systems, tacking on social interaction features (forum, blog)
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